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 03f9f0b41a..767ecab7de 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
@@ -20,9 +20,6 @@ The following Maven example shows how to exclude Tomcat and include Jetty for Sp
 
 [source,xml,indent=0,subs="verbatim"]
 ----
-	<properties>
-		<servlet-api.version>3.1.0</servlet-api.version>
-	</properties>
 	<dependency>
 		<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
 		<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
@@ -41,46 +38,6 @@ The following Maven example shows how to exclude Tomcat and include Jetty for Sp
 	</dependency>
 ----
 
-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, 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>
-		</exclusions>
-	</dependency>
-	<!-- Use Jetty instead -->
-	<dependency>
-		<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
-		<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-jetty</artifactId>
-		<exclusions>
-			<!-- 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>
-----
-
-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:
 
 [source,gradle,indent=0,subs="verbatim"]