diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc
index c48288d293..69ec98a4f0 100755
--- a/README.adoc
+++ b/README.adoc
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Here is a quick teaser of a complete Spring Boot application in Java:
 			return "Hello World!";
 		}
 
-		public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
+		public static void main(String[] args) {
 			SpringApplication.run(Example.class, args);
 		}
 
diff --git a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/SpringApplication.java b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/SpringApplication.java
index e5b0a6f1d4..fee427823a 100644
--- a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/SpringApplication.java
+++ b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/SpringApplication.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2012-2018 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2012-2019 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ import org.springframework.web.context.support.StandardServletEnvironment;
  *
  *   // ... Bean definitions
  *
- *   public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
+ *   public static void main(String[] args) {
  *     SpringApplication.run(MyApplication.class, args);
  *   }
  * }
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ import org.springframework.web.context.support.StandardServletEnvironment;
  * customized before being run:
  *
  * <pre class="code">
- * public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
+ * public static void main(String[] args) {
  *   SpringApplication application = new SpringApplication(MyApplication.class);
  *   // ... customize application settings here
  *   application.run(args)