diff --git a/docs/java-rest/usage.asciidoc b/docs/java-rest/usage.asciidoc
index 55eac8e4668a..3bf5ee594a49 100644
--- a/docs/java-rest/usage.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/java-rest/usage.asciidoc
@@ -51,8 +51,8 @@ https://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-core-ga/httpcore/apidocs/org/apache/http/Ht
 [source,java]
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 RestClient restClient = RestClient.builder(
-        new HttpHost("http", "localhost", 9200),
-        new HttpHost("http", "localhost", 9201)).build();
+        new HttpHost("localhost", 9200, "http"),
+        new HttpHost("localhost", 9201, "http")).build();
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 The `RestClient` class is thread-safe and ideally has the same lifecycle as