diff --git a/contrib/j2ee/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/j2ee/EntityBeanEjbHomeCheck.java b/contrib/j2ee/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/j2ee/EntityBeanEjbHomeCheck.java
index 1cd9b5247..546b09537 100644
--- a/contrib/j2ee/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/j2ee/EntityBeanEjbHomeCheck.java
+++ b/contrib/j2ee/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/j2ee/EntityBeanEjbHomeCheck.java
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ public class EntityBeanEjbHomeCheck
         {
             checkMethod(aAST);
             if (Utils.hasThrows(aAST, "java.rmi.RemoteException")) {
-                 log(nameAST.getLineNo(), nameAST.getColumnNo(),
+                log(nameAST.getLineNo(), nameAST.getColumnNo(),
                     "illegalthrows.bean",
                      new Object[] {name, "java.rmi.RemoteException"});
             }