diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 16c226225..64562a035 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -812,6 +812,15 @@
           
          </regexes>
         </check>
+        <instrumentation>
+            <excludes>
+              <exclude>com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/CheckStyleTask*.class</exclude>
+              <exclude>com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/doclets/*.class</exclude>
+              <exclude>com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/grammars/*.class</exclude>
+              <exclude>com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/grammars/javadoc/*.class</exclude>
+              <exclude>com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/gui/*.class</exclude>
+            </excludes>
+        </instrumentation>
        </configuration> 
        <executions>
           <execution>
@@ -822,23 +831,6 @@
        </executions>
       </plugin>
 
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
-        <artifactId>cobertura-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>2.6</version>
-        <configuration>
-          <instrumentation>
-            <excludes>
-              <exclude>com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/CheckStyleTask*.class</exclude>
-              <exclude>com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/doclets/*.class</exclude>
-              <exclude>com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/grammars/*.class</exclude>
-              <exclude>com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/grammars/javadoc/*.class</exclude>
-              <exclude>com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/gui/*.class</exclude>
-            </excludes>
-          </instrumentation>
-        </configuration>
-      </plugin>
-
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-eclipse-plugin</artifactId>