diff --git a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/SQLContext.scala b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/SQLContext.scala
index bd4a55fa132fb2d5dbc4845fc69152b402a28a7e..5116fcefd4bf2d7430e8c52d9019ec44c41a1f37 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/SQLContext.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/SQLContext.scala
@@ -428,20 +428,6 @@ class SQLContext(@transient val sparkContext: SparkContext)
     createDataFrame(rowRDD.rdd, schema)
   }
 
-  /**
-   * Creates a [[DataFrame]] from an [[JavaRDD]] containing [[Row]]s by applying
-   * a seq of names of columns to this RDD, the data type for each column will
-   * be inferred by the first row.
-   *
-   * @param rowRDD an JavaRDD of Row
-   * @param columns names for each column
-   * @return DataFrame
-   * @group dataframes
-   */
-  def createDataFrame(rowRDD: JavaRDD[Row], columns: java.util.List[String]): DataFrame = {
-    createDataFrame(rowRDD.rdd, columns.toSeq)
-  }
-
   /**
    * Applies a schema to an RDD of Java Beans.
    *