diff --git a/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/traversals/TraversalEngine.java b/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/traversals/TraversalEngine.java
index e87f99fd2..8fa7c61c7 100755
--- a/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/traversals/TraversalEngine.java
+++ b/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/traversals/TraversalEngine.java
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ public abstract class TraversalEngine {
             samReader = initializeSAMFile(allReadsFiles.get(0));
         else
             samReader = null;
-        return WrapReadsIterator(getReadsIterator(samReader), true);
+        return wrapReadsIterator(getReadsIterator(samReader), true);
     }
 
     protected Iterator<SAMRecord> getReadsIterator(final SAMFileReader samReader) {
@@ -381,9 +381,9 @@ public abstract class TraversalEngine {
     }
 
     @Deprecated
-    protected StingSAMIterator WrapReadsIterator( final Iterator<SAMRecord> rawIterator, final boolean enableVerification ) {
+    protected StingSAMIterator wrapReadsIterator( final Iterator<SAMRecord> rawIterator, final boolean enableVerification ) {
         StingSAMIterator wrappedIterator = StingSAMIteratorAdapter.adapt(rawIterator);
-        wrappedIterator = ApplyDecoratingIterators(enableVerification, wrappedIterator);
+        wrappedIterator = applyDecoratingIterators(enableVerification, wrappedIterator);
 
 
         if (THREADED_IO) {
@@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ public abstract class TraversalEngine {
         return wrappedIterator;
     }
 
-    protected StingSAMIterator ApplyDecoratingIterators(boolean enableVerification, StingSAMIterator wrappedIterator) {
+    protected StingSAMIterator applyDecoratingIterators(boolean enableVerification, StingSAMIterator wrappedIterator) {
         // NOTE: this (and other filtering) should be done before on-the-fly sorting
         //  as there is no reason to sort something that we will end of throwing away
         if (DOWNSAMPLE_BY_FRACTION)
diff --git a/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/traversals/TraverseByLoci.java b/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/traversals/TraverseByLoci.java
index 1c819c899..c3b3a834b 100644
--- a/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/traversals/TraverseByLoci.java
+++ b/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/traversals/TraverseByLoci.java
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ public class TraverseByLoci extends TraversalEngine {
                         (int)interval.getStart(),
                         (int)interval.getStop()+1 );
 
-                Iterator<SAMRecord> wrappedIter = WrapReadsIterator( readIter, false );
+                Iterator<SAMRecord> wrappedIter = wrapReadsIterator( readIter, false );
                 sum = carryWalkerOverInterval(walker, wrappedIter, sum, interval);
                 readIter.close();
             }
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ public class TraverseByLoci extends TraversalEngine {
         else {
             // We aren't locus oriented
             logger.debug("Doing non-interval-based traversal");
-            samReadIter = WrapReadsIterator(getReadsIterator(samReader), true);
+            samReadIter = wrapReadsIterator(getReadsIterator(samReader), true);
             sum = carryWalkerOverInterval(walker, samReadIter, sum, null);
         }
 
diff --git a/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/traversals/TraverseByLocusWindows.java b/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/traversals/TraverseByLocusWindows.java
index ca1430c22..5b91f48b3 100755
--- a/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/traversals/TraverseByLocusWindows.java
+++ b/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/traversals/TraverseByLocusWindows.java
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ import org.broadinstitute.sting.gatk.refdata.RefMetaDataTracker;
 import org.broadinstitute.sting.gatk.iterators.ReferenceIterator;
 import org.broadinstitute.sting.utils.GenomeLoc;
 import org.broadinstitute.sting.utils.Utils;
-import org.broadinstitute.sting.utils.Pair;
 
 import java.util.*;
 import java.io.File;
@@ -90,7 +89,7 @@ public class TraverseByLocusWindows extends TraversalEngine {
             CloseableIterator<SAMRecord> readIter = samReader.queryOverlapping( interval.getContig(),
                     (int)interval.getStart(),
                     (int)interval.getStop());
-            Iterator<SAMRecord> wrappedIter = WrapReadsIterator(readIter, false);
+            Iterator<SAMRecord> wrappedIter = wrapReadsIterator(readIter, false);
             LocusContext locus = getLocusContext(wrappedIter, interval);
             readIter.close();
 
@@ -150,7 +149,7 @@ public class TraverseByLocusWindows extends TraversalEngine {
                 // otherwise, we're past the interval so first deal with the collected reads and then this one
                 else {
                     if ( intervalReads.size() > 0 ) {
-                        Iterator<SAMRecord> wrappedIter = WrapReadsIterator(intervalReads.iterator(), false);
+                        Iterator<SAMRecord> wrappedIter = wrapReadsIterator(intervalReads.iterator(), false);
                         LocusContext locus = getLocusContext(wrappedIter, currentInterval);
 
                         if ( nextLociToCarry.size() == 0 ) {
@@ -186,7 +185,7 @@ public class TraverseByLocusWindows extends TraversalEngine {
         }
         // some cleanup
         if ( intervalReads.size() > 0 ) {
-            Iterator<SAMRecord> wrappedIter = WrapReadsIterator(intervalReads.iterator(), false);
+            Iterator<SAMRecord> wrappedIter = wrapReadsIterator(intervalReads.iterator(), false);
             LocusContext locus = getLocusContext(wrappedIter, currentInterval);
             if ( nextLociToCarry.size() == 0 ) {
                 nextLociToCarry.add(locus);
diff --git a/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/traversals/TraverseReads.java b/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/traversals/TraverseReads.java
index 2e1f771ad..d822597f4 100755
--- a/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/traversals/TraverseReads.java
+++ b/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/traversals/TraverseReads.java
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ public class TraverseReads extends TraversalEngine {
         ReadWalker<M, T> readWalker = (ReadWalker<M, T>) walker;
 
         // we allow a bunch of wrapping iterators for down sampling, threadingIO, etc.
-        StingSAMIterator it = ApplyDecoratingIterators(true, dataProvider.getReadIterator());
+        StingSAMIterator it = applyDecoratingIterators(true, dataProvider.getReadIterator());
 
         // while we still have more reads
         for (SAMRecord read : it) {