diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/FilteredTermEnum.java b/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/FilteredTermEnum.java
index 866996c0a2b..cfa65a522e1 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/FilteredTermEnum.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/FilteredTermEnum.java
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ public abstract class FilteredTermEnum extends TermEnum {
     private Term currentTerm = null;
     private TermEnum actualEnum = null;
     
-    public FilteredTermEnum(IndexReader reader, Term term) throws IOException {}
+    public FilteredTermEnum() throws IOException {}
 
     /** Equality compare on the term */
     protected abstract boolean termCompare(Term term);
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/FuzzyTermEnum.java b/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/FuzzyTermEnum.java
index 7cacca22b00..9335e3182ea 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/FuzzyTermEnum.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/FuzzyTermEnum.java
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ public final class FuzzyTermEnum extends FilteredTermEnum {
     int textlen;
     
     public FuzzyTermEnum(IndexReader reader, Term term) throws IOException {
-        super(reader, term);
+        super();
         searchTerm = term;
         field = searchTerm.field();
         text = searchTerm.text();
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/WildcardTermEnum.java b/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/WildcardTermEnum.java
index e744b146edf..ed048b8e79e 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/WildcardTermEnum.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/WildcardTermEnum.java
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ public class WildcardTermEnum extends FilteredTermEnum {
    * <code>WILDCARD_CHAR</code> will cause an exception to be thrown.
    */
   public WildcardTermEnum(IndexReader reader, Term term) throws IOException {
-    super(reader, term);
+    super();
     searchTerm = term;
     field = searchTerm.field();
     text = searchTerm.text();