diff --git a/spring-integration-samples/filecopy/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/samples/filecopy/fileCopyDemo-text.xml b/spring-integration-samples/filecopy/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/samples/filecopy/fileCopyDemo-text.xml
index ea48b92798..ac5302c04b 100644
--- a/spring-integration-samples/filecopy/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/samples/filecopy/fileCopyDemo-text.xml
+++ b/spring-integration-samples/filecopy/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/samples/filecopy/fileCopyDemo-text.xml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 	<file:inbound-channel-adapter id="filesIn"
 	                              directory="file:${java.io.tmpdir}/spring-integration-samples/input"
 	                              filename-pattern="[a-z]+.txt">
-		<integration:poller id="poller" default="true" fixed-delay="5000"/>
+		<integration:poller id="poller" fixed-delay="5000"/>
 	</file:inbound-channel-adapter>
 
 	<file:file-to-string-transformer input-channel="filesIn" output-channel="strings"/>