diff --git a/example/src/main/java/io/netty/example/http/helloworld/HttpHelloWorldServerHandler.java b/example/src/main/java/io/netty/example/http/helloworld/HttpHelloWorldServerHandler.java
index af142dc11d..3faf51af41 100644
--- a/example/src/main/java/io/netty/example/http/helloworld/HttpHelloWorldServerHandler.java
+++ b/example/src/main/java/io/netty/example/http/helloworld/HttpHelloWorldServerHandler.java
@@ -18,16 +18,18 @@ package io.netty.example.http.helloworld;
 import io.netty.buffer.Unpooled;
 import io.netty.channel.ChannelFutureListener;
 import io.netty.channel.ChannelHandlerContext;
-import io.netty.channel.ChannelInboundHandlerAdapter;
+import io.netty.channel.SimpleChannelInboundHandler;
 import io.netty.handler.codec.http.DefaultFullHttpResponse;
 import io.netty.handler.codec.http.FullHttpResponse;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpObject;
 import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpUtil;
 import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpRequest;
 import io.netty.util.AsciiString;
+
 import static io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpResponseStatus.*;
 import static io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpVersion.*;
 
-public class HttpHelloWorldServerHandler extends ChannelInboundHandlerAdapter {
+public class HttpHelloWorldServerHandler extends SimpleChannelInboundHandler<HttpObject> {
     private static final byte[] CONTENT = { 'H', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', ' ', 'W', 'o', 'r', 'l', 'd' };
 
     private static final AsciiString CONTENT_TYPE = AsciiString.cached("Content-Type");
@@ -41,7 +43,7 @@ public class HttpHelloWorldServerHandler extends ChannelInboundHandlerAdapter {
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void channelRead(ChannelHandlerContext ctx, Object msg) {
+    public void channelRead0(ChannelHandlerContext ctx, HttpObject msg) {
         if (msg instanceof HttpRequest) {
             HttpRequest req = (HttpRequest) msg;