diff --git a/src/main/asciidoc/_chapters/external_apis.adoc b/src/main/asciidoc/_chapters/external_apis.adoc
index 129094e1d1c..b7aebb46557 100644
--- a/src/main/asciidoc/_chapters/external_apis.adoc
+++ b/src/main/asciidoc/_chapters/external_apis.adoc
@@ -934,33 +934,35 @@ libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
 
 === Example Scala Code
 
-This example lists HBase tables, creates a new table, adds a row to it, and gets the value of the row.
+This example lists HBase tables, creates a new table, and adds a row to it.
 
 [source, scala]
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-import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.{HBaseConfiguration, TableName}
-import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.{Admin, Connection, ConnectionFactory, Get, Put}
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HBaseConfiguration
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.{Connection,ConnectionFactory,HBaseAdmin,HTable,Put,Get}
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.Bytes
 
-val conf = HBaseConfiguration.create()
+
+val conf = new HBaseConfiguration()
 val connection = ConnectionFactory.createConnection(conf);
 val admin = connection.getAdmin();
 
 // list the tables
-val listtables = admin.listTables()
+val listtables=admin.listTables()
 listtables.foreach(println)
 
 // let's insert some data in 'mytable' and get the row
-val table = connection.getTable(TableName.valueOf("mytable"))
 
-val theput = new Put(Bytes.toBytes("rowkey1"))
+val table = new HTable(conf, "mytable")
 
-theput.addColumn(Bytes.toBytes("ids"),Bytes.toBytes("id1"),Bytes.toBytes("one"))
+val theput= new Put(Bytes.toBytes("rowkey1"))
+
+theput.add(Bytes.toBytes("ids"),Bytes.toBytes("id1"),Bytes.toBytes("one"))
 table.put(theput)
 
-val theget = new Get(Bytes.toBytes("rowkey1"))
-val result = table.get(theget)
-val value = result.value()
+val theget= new Get(Bytes.toBytes("rowkey1"))
+val result=table.get(theget)
+val value=result.value()
 println(Bytes.toString(value))
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