diff --git a/org.springframework.core/src/main/java/org/springframework/core/io/support/PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver.java b/org.springframework.core/src/main/java/org/springframework/core/io/support/PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver.java
index 342e1e0956c..24eaa7f4696 100644
--- a/org.springframework.core/src/main/java/org/springframework/core/io/support/PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver.java
+++ b/org.springframework.core/src/main/java/org/springframework/core/io/support/PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver.java
@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ public class PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver implements ResourcePatternResol
 	 * resolving the root directory location to a <code>java.io.File</code>
 	 * and passing it into <code>retrieveMatchingFiles</code>, with the
 	 * remainder of the location as pattern.
-	 * <p>Will return "/WEB-INF" for the pattern "/WEB-INF/*.xml",
+	 * <p>Will return "/WEB-INF/" for the pattern "/WEB-INF/*.xml",
 	 * for example.
 	 * @param location the location to check
 	 * @return the part of the location that denotes the root directory