diff --git a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/http-reference.adoc b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/http-reference.adoc
index e61f12c3815b5a..17fb762b833f6f 100644
--- a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/http-reference.adoc
+++ b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/http-reference.adoc
@@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ public static class MyCustomizer implements HttpServerOptionsCustomizer {
     }
 }
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-<1> By making the class a bean, Quarkus will take the customizer into account when it starts the Vert.x servers
+<1> By making the class a managed bean, Quarkus will take the customizer into account when it starts the Vert.x servers
 <2> In this case, we only care about customizing the HTTP server, so we just override the `customizeHttpServer` method.
 
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