diff --git a/.settings/edu.umd.cs.findbugs.core.prefs b/.settings/edu.umd.cs.findbugs.core.prefs
index daa4c5b85fba5c65e0727db9144b524012b43edd..32039c99ca8ea732a40a45c99121341402f02a45 100644
--- a/.settings/edu.umd.cs.findbugs.core.prefs
+++ b/.settings/edu.umd.cs.findbugs.core.prefs
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #FindBugs User Preferences
-#Wed Dec 17 07:36:29 CET 2014
+#Wed Dec 17 07:37:54 CET 2014
 detector_threshold=3
 effort=max
 excludefilter0=.fbExcludeFilterFile|true
diff --git a/src/main/java/teetime/framework/RunnableStage.java b/src/main/java/teetime/framework/RunnableStage.java
index 464f695eab14c116e6413f7fee7c00fb59bce054..3c1ccbe388830931426533e8f76aeb0106ccbee6 100644
--- a/src/main/java/teetime/framework/RunnableStage.java
+++ b/src/main/java/teetime/framework/RunnableStage.java
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ import teetime.framework.validation.AnalysisNotValidException;
 public class RunnableStage implements Runnable {
 
 	private final Stage stage;
-	private final Logger logger; 
+	@SuppressWarnings("PMD.LoggerIsNotStaticFinal")
+	private final Logger logger;
 	private boolean validationEnabled;
 
 	public RunnableStage(final Stage stage) {
diff --git a/src/main/java/teetime/framework/TerminateException.java b/src/main/java/teetime/framework/TerminateException.java
index a82b31073fa80b59cc6cc1e7f4962b5f3103990e..192fc2a4bec7e52822b13b3b40c6d646e44e470c 100644
--- a/src/main/java/teetime/framework/TerminateException.java
+++ b/src/main/java/teetime/framework/TerminateException.java
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ public final class TerminateException extends RuntimeException {
 
 	private static final long serialVersionUID = 6841651916837487909L;
 
+	@SuppressWarnings("PMD.AvoidSynchronizedAtMethodLevel")
 	@Override
 	public synchronized Throwable fillInStackTrace() {
 		return this;