diff --git a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-starters/spring-boot-starter-jdbc/pom.xml b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-starters/spring-boot-starter-jdbc/pom.xml
index a416828427..e6adba2908 100644
--- a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-starters/spring-boot-starter-jdbc/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-starters/spring-boot-starter-jdbc/pom.xml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-jdbc</artifactId>
 	<name>Spring Boot JDBC Starter</name>
-	<description>Starter for using JDBC with the Tomcat JDBC connection pool</description>
+	<description>Starter for using JDBC with the HikariCP connection pool</description>
 	<properties>
 		<main.basedir>${basedir}/../../..</main.basedir>
 	</properties>