diff --git a/azkaban-common/src/main/java/azkaban/project/validator/XmlValidatorManager.java b/azkaban-common/src/main/java/azkaban/project/validator/XmlValidatorManager.java
index 30d0517..8e56834 100644
--- a/azkaban-common/src/main/java/azkaban/project/validator/XmlValidatorManager.java
+++ b/azkaban-common/src/main/java/azkaban/project/validator/XmlValidatorManager.java
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ public class XmlValidatorManager implements ValidatorManager {
} catch (IOException e) {
logger.error("Cannot reload validator classloader because failure "
+ "to close the validator classloader.");
- throw new ValidatorManagerException(e);
+ // We do not throw the ValidatorManagerException because we do not want to crash Azkaban at runtime.
}
validatorLoader = new URLClassLoader(resources.toArray(new URL[resources.size()]));
}