diff --git a/spring-cloud-stream-core-docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-cloud-stream-overview.adoc b/spring-cloud-stream-core-docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-cloud-stream-overview.adoc
index 738712736..4b8eaf845 100644
--- a/spring-cloud-stream-core-docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-cloud-stream-overview.adoc
+++ b/spring-cloud-stream-core-docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-cloud-stream-overview.adoc
@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ Or you can use a processor's channels in a transformer:
 public class TransformProcessor {
   @Transformer(inputChannel = Processor.INPUT, outputChannel = Processor.OUTPUT)
   public Object transform(String message) {
-    return message.toUpper();
+    return message.toUpperCase();
   }
 }
 ----