diff --git a/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/howto.adoc b/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/howto.adoc
index c56c0a67a6..a8cc76b0e5 100644
--- a/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/howto.adoc
+++ b/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/howto.adoc
@@ -570,8 +570,7 @@ Tomcat 8 for it to work. For example, using the starter poms in Maven:
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 change the classpath to use Tomcat 8
-for it to work. The {github-code}/spring-boot-samples/spring-boot-sample-websocket/pom.xml[websocket sample]
-shows you how to do that in Maven.
+for it to work.