See http://www.nabble.com/Indentation-problem-with-long-method-signature-and-throws-td16427361.html
There are about 110 examples where the style in use in the code base runs into this, which sadly seems to be an immutable opinion of checkstyle. I don't know of any way to automate style checks except checkstyle. So, either folks have to be willing to accept it's view of this situation, or I need to turn off indentation checking.
