diff --git a/watcher/docs/reference/java.asciidoc b/watcher/docs/reference/java.asciidoc
index ef77b32f4f9..bab0e2d38f9 100644
--- a/watcher/docs/reference/java.asciidoc
+++ b/watcher/docs/reference/java.asciidoc
@@ -75,10 +75,18 @@ Creating the `WatcherClient` can simply be done as the following snippet shows:
 
 [source,java]
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+import org.elasticsearch.client.transport.TransportClient;
 import org.elasticsearch.watcher.client.WatcherClient;
+import org.elasticsearch.watcher.WatcherPlugin;
 ...
 
-Client client = ... // create and initialize either the transport or the node client
+TransportClient client = TransportClient.builder()
+    .settings(Settings.builder()
+    .put("cluster.name", "myClusterName")
+    ...
+    .build())
+    .addPlugin(WatcherPlugin.class)
+    .addTransportAddress(new InetSocketTransportAddress("localhost", 9300));
 
 WatcherClient watcherClient = new WatcherClient(client);
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