diff --git a/spring-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/util/concurrent/MonoToListenableFutureAdapter.java b/spring-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/util/concurrent/MonoToListenableFutureAdapter.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f86c48cf020
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/util/concurrent/MonoToListenableFutureAdapter.java
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2002-2018 the original author or authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.springframework.util.concurrent;
+
+import java.time.Duration;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
+
+import reactor.core.publisher.Mono;
+import reactor.core.publisher.MonoProcessor;
+
+import org.springframework.lang.Nullable;
+import org.springframework.util.Assert;
+
+/**
+ * Adapts a {@link Mono} into a {@link ListenableFuture}.
+ *
+ * @author Rossen Stoyanchev
+ * @author Stephane Maldini
+ * @since 5.1
+ * @param <T> the object type
+ */
+public class MonoToListenableFutureAdapter<T> implements ListenableFuture<T> {
+
+	private final MonoProcessor<T> processor;
+
+	private final ListenableFutureCallbackRegistry<T> registry = new ListenableFutureCallbackRegistry<>();
+
+
+	public MonoToListenableFutureAdapter(Mono<T> mono) {
+		Assert.notNull(mono, "Mono must not be null");
+		this.processor = mono
+				.doOnSuccess(this.registry::success)
+				.doOnError(this.registry::failure)
+				.toProcessor();
+	}
+
+
+	@Override
+	@Nullable
+	public T get() {
+		return this.processor.block();
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	@Nullable
+	public T get(long timeout, TimeUnit unit) {
+		Assert.notNull(unit, "TimeUnit must not be null");
+		Duration duration = Duration.ofMillis(TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.convert(timeout, unit));
+		return this.processor.block(duration);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public boolean cancel(boolean mayInterruptIfRunning) {
+		if (isCancelled()) {
+			return false;
+		}
+		this.processor.cancel();
+		// isCancelled may still return false, if mono completed before the cancel
+		return this.processor.isCancelled();
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public boolean isCancelled() {
+		return this.processor.isCancelled();
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public boolean isDone() {
+		return this.processor.isTerminated();
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public void addCallback(ListenableFutureCallback<? super T> callback) {
+		this.registry.addCallback(callback);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public void addCallback(SuccessCallback<? super T> success, FailureCallback failure) {
+		this.registry.addSuccessCallback(success);
+		this.registry.addFailureCallback(failure);
+	}
+
+}
diff --git a/spring-messaging/src/test/java/org/springframework/messaging/support/MonoToListenableFutureAdapterTests.java b/spring-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/util/concurrent/MonoToListenableFutureAdapterTests.java
similarity index 95%
rename from spring-messaging/src/test/java/org/springframework/messaging/support/MonoToListenableFutureAdapterTests.java
rename to spring-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/util/concurrent/MonoToListenableFutureAdapterTests.java
index e9f3c7a9051..aec8c9854d8 100644
--- a/spring-messaging/src/test/java/org/springframework/messaging/support/MonoToListenableFutureAdapterTests.java
+++ b/spring-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/util/concurrent/MonoToListenableFutureAdapterTests.java
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
  * limitations under the License.
  */
-package org.springframework.messaging.support;
+package org.springframework.util.concurrent;
 
 import java.time.Duration;
 import java.util.concurrent.Future;
@@ -22,8 +22,6 @@ import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReference;
 import org.junit.Test;
 import reactor.core.publisher.Mono;
 
-import org.springframework.util.concurrent.ListenableFuture;
-
 import static org.junit.Assert.*;
 
 /**
diff --git a/spring-messaging/src/main/java/org/springframework/messaging/handler/invocation/ReactiveReturnValueHandler.java b/spring-messaging/src/main/java/org/springframework/messaging/handler/invocation/ReactiveReturnValueHandler.java
index ac3ca100196..334457cf701 100644
--- a/spring-messaging/src/main/java/org/springframework/messaging/handler/invocation/ReactiveReturnValueHandler.java
+++ b/spring-messaging/src/main/java/org/springframework/messaging/handler/invocation/ReactiveReturnValueHandler.java
@@ -21,9 +21,9 @@ import reactor.core.publisher.Mono;
 import org.springframework.core.MethodParameter;
 import org.springframework.core.ReactiveAdapter;
 import org.springframework.core.ReactiveAdapterRegistry;
-import org.springframework.messaging.support.MonoToListenableFutureAdapter;
 import org.springframework.util.Assert;
 import org.springframework.util.concurrent.ListenableFuture;
+import org.springframework.util.concurrent.MonoToListenableFutureAdapter;
 
 /**
  * Support for single-value reactive types (like {@code Mono} or {@code Single})
diff --git a/spring-messaging/src/main/java/org/springframework/messaging/support/MonoToListenableFutureAdapter.java b/spring-messaging/src/main/java/org/springframework/messaging/support/MonoToListenableFutureAdapter.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 712644f55ee..00000000000
--- a/spring-messaging/src/main/java/org/springframework/messaging/support/MonoToListenableFutureAdapter.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Copyright 2002-2018 the original author or authors.
- *
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-
-package org.springframework.messaging.support;
-
-import reactor.core.publisher.Mono;
-
-import org.springframework.lang.Nullable;
-
-/**
- * A Mono-to-ListenableFuture adapter where the source and the target from
- * the Promise and the ListenableFuture respectively are of the same type.
- *
- * @author Rossen Stoyanchev
- * @author Stephane Maldini
- * @since 5.0
- * @param <T> the object type
- */
-public class MonoToListenableFutureAdapter<T> extends AbstractMonoToListenableFutureAdapter<T, T> {
-
-	public MonoToListenableFutureAdapter(Mono<T> mono) {
-		super(mono);
-	}
-
-	@Override
-	@Nullable
-	protected T adapt(@Nullable T result) {
-		return result;
-	}
-
-}
diff --git a/spring-messaging/src/main/java/org/springframework/messaging/tcp/reactor/ReactorNettyTcpClient.java b/spring-messaging/src/main/java/org/springframework/messaging/tcp/reactor/ReactorNettyTcpClient.java
index 8ad4774b0d2..9168e2b24e4 100644
--- a/spring-messaging/src/main/java/org/springframework/messaging/tcp/reactor/ReactorNettyTcpClient.java
+++ b/spring-messaging/src/main/java/org/springframework/messaging/tcp/reactor/ReactorNettyTcpClient.java
@@ -49,13 +49,13 @@ import reactor.netty.tcp.TcpClient;
 
 import org.springframework.lang.Nullable;
 import org.springframework.messaging.Message;
-import org.springframework.messaging.support.MonoToListenableFutureAdapter;
 import org.springframework.messaging.tcp.ReconnectStrategy;
 import org.springframework.messaging.tcp.TcpConnection;
 import org.springframework.messaging.tcp.TcpConnectionHandler;
 import org.springframework.messaging.tcp.TcpOperations;
 import org.springframework.util.Assert;
 import org.springframework.util.concurrent.ListenableFuture;
+import org.springframework.util.concurrent.MonoToListenableFutureAdapter;
 import org.springframework.util.concurrent.SettableListenableFuture;
 
 /**
diff --git a/spring-messaging/src/main/java/org/springframework/messaging/tcp/reactor/ReactorNettyTcpConnection.java b/spring-messaging/src/main/java/org/springframework/messaging/tcp/reactor/ReactorNettyTcpConnection.java
index 25ec53d67d4..0df203d1308 100644
--- a/spring-messaging/src/main/java/org/springframework/messaging/tcp/reactor/ReactorNettyTcpConnection.java
+++ b/spring-messaging/src/main/java/org/springframework/messaging/tcp/reactor/ReactorNettyTcpConnection.java
@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ import reactor.netty.NettyInbound;
 import reactor.netty.NettyOutbound;
 
 import org.springframework.messaging.Message;
-import org.springframework.messaging.support.MonoToListenableFutureAdapter;
 import org.springframework.messaging.tcp.TcpConnection;
 import org.springframework.util.concurrent.ListenableFuture;
+import org.springframework.util.concurrent.MonoToListenableFutureAdapter;
 
 /**
  * Reactor Netty based implementation of {@link TcpConnection}.