diff --git a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/configuration-metadata/annotation-processor.adoc b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/configuration-metadata/annotation-processor.adoc
index 10a4f955cc..245669e18b 100644
--- a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/configuration-metadata/annotation-processor.adoc
+++ b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/configuration-metadata/annotation-processor.adoc
@@ -61,25 +61,9 @@ You could also let the AspectJ plugin run all the processing and disable annotat
 
 [NOTE]
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-If you are also using lombok in your project, you need to make sure that the `lombok` dependency is placed before the `spring-boot-configuration-processor` dependency.
-Otherwise, combining `lombok` annotations with `spring-boot-configuration-processor` annotations will not have the desired result.
-
-[source,xml,indent=0,subs="verbatim"]
-----
-    <dependency>
-        <groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
-        <artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
-        <scope>provided</scope>
-    </dependency>
-
-    ...............
-
-    <dependency>
-        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
-        <artifactId>spring-boot-configuration-processor</artifactId>
-        <optional>true</optional>
-    </dependency>
-----
+If you are using Lombok in your project, you need to make sure that its annotation processor runs before `spring-boot-configuration-processor`.
+To do so with Maven, you can list the annotation processors in the right order using the `annotationProcessors` attribute of the Maven compiler plugin.
+If you are not using this attribute, and annotation processors are picked up by the dependencies available on the classpath, make sure that the `lombok` dependency is defined before the  `spring-boot-configuration-processor` dependency.
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