diff --git a/spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/http/codec/ServerSentEventHttpMessageWriter.java b/spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/http/codec/ServerSentEventHttpMessageWriter.java
index 3925702a4f2..142e6b0b6ad 100644
--- a/spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/http/codec/ServerSentEventHttpMessageWriter.java
+++ b/spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/http/codec/ServerSentEventHttpMessageWriter.java
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ import org.springframework.util.Assert;
 import org.springframework.util.MimeTypeUtils;
 
 /**
- * Encoder that supports a stream of {@link ServerSentEvent}s and also plain
+ * Writer that supports a stream of {@link ServerSentEvent}s and also plain
  * {@link Object}s which is the same as an {@link ServerSentEvent} with data
  * only.
  *