diff --git a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/howto/webserver.adoc b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/howto/webserver.adoc
index ee3404a05fa0..a6b2e42485e3 100644
--- a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/howto/webserver.adoc
+++ b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/howto/webserver.adoc
@@ -42,7 +42,42 @@ The following Maven example shows how to exclude Tomcat and include Jetty for Sp
 ----
 
 NOTE: The version of the servlet API has been overridden as, unlike Tomcat 9 and Undertow 2, Jetty 9.4 does not support servlet 4.0.
-If you wish to use Jetty 10, which does support servlet 4.0, override the `jetty.version` property rather than the `servlet-api.version` property.
+
+If you wish to use Jetty 10, which does support servlet 4.0, you can do so as shown in the following example:
+
+[source,xml,indent=0,subs="verbatim"]
+----
+	<properties>
+		<jetty.version>10.0.8</jetty.version>
+	</properties>
+	<dependency>
+		<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
+		<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
+		<exclusions>
+			<!-- Exclude the Tomcat dependency -->
+			<exclusion>
+				<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
+				<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
+			</exclusion>
+			<!-- Exclude the Jetty-9 specific dependencies -->
+			<exclusion>
+				<groupId>org.eclipse.jetty.websocket</groupId>
+				<artifactId>websocket-server</artifactId>
+			</exclusion>
+			<exclusion>
+				<groupId>org.eclipse.jetty.websocket</groupId>
+				<artifactId>javax-websocket-server-impl</artifactId>
+			</exclusion>
+		</exclusions>
+	</dependency>
+	<!-- Use Jetty instead -->
+	<dependency>
+		<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
+		<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-jetty</artifactId>
+	</dependency>
+----
+
+Note that along with excluding the Tomcat starter, a couple of Jetty9-specific dependencies also need to be excluded.
 
 The following Gradle example configures the necessary dependencies and a {gradle-docs}/resolution_rules.html#sec:module_replacement[module replacement] to use Undertow in place of Reactor Netty for Spring WebFlux: