diff --git a/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/walkers/DepthOfCoverageWalker.java b/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/walkers/DepthOfCoverageWalker.java
index d5f33a836..752b99be9 100755
--- a/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/walkers/DepthOfCoverageWalker.java
+++ b/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/walkers/DepthOfCoverageWalker.java
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ public class DepthOfCoverageWalker extends LocusWalker<Integer, Pair<Long, Long>
         return context.getReads().size();
     }
 
-    public boolean ReduceByInterval() {
+    public boolean isReduceByInterval() {
         return true;
     }
 
diff --git a/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/walkers/Walker.java b/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/walkers/Walker.java
index c61719869..461970c00 100755
--- a/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/walkers/Walker.java
+++ b/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/walkers/Walker.java
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ public abstract class Walker<MapType, ReduceType> {
      * The system will call onTraversalDone( GenomeLoc -> reduce ), after all reductions are done,
      *   which is overloaded here to call onTraversalDone(reduce) for each location
      */
-    public boolean ReduceByInterval() {
+    public boolean isReduceByInterval() {
         return false;
     }
 }