diff --git a/spring-integration-kafka/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/kafka/dsl/KafkaProducerMessageHandlerSpec.java b/spring-integration-kafka/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/kafka/dsl/KafkaProducerMessageHandlerSpec.java
index 1d1d4cbb8f..d12c805e14 100644
--- a/spring-integration-kafka/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/kafka/dsl/KafkaProducerMessageHandlerSpec.java
+++ b/spring-integration-kafka/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/kafka/dsl/KafkaProducerMessageHandlerSpec.java
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ import org.springframework.integration.expression.ValueExpression;
 import org.springframework.integration.kafka.outbound.KafkaProducerMessageHandler;
 import org.springframework.kafka.core.KafkaTemplate;
 import org.springframework.kafka.core.ProducerFactory;
-import org.springframework.kafka.support.DefaultKafkaHeaderMapper;
 import org.springframework.kafka.support.KafkaHeaderMapper;
 import org.springframework.kafka.support.LoggingProducerListener;
 import org.springframework.kafka.support.ProducerListener;
@@ -259,14 +258,6 @@ public class KafkaProducerMessageHandlerSpec<K, V, S extends KafkaProducerMessag
 		return _this();
 	}
 
-	/**
-	 * Add a default header mapper to map spring messaging headers to Kafka headers.
-	 * @return the spec.
-	 */
-	public S headerMapper() {
-		return headerMapper(new DefaultKafkaHeaderMapper());
-	}
-
 	/**
 	 * Specify a header mapper to map spring messaging headers to Kafka headers.
 	 * @param mapper the mapper.