diff --git a/spring-aot/BUILD.bazel b/spring-aot/BUILD.bazel
index 0bbfea5f7b..cef047b2ca 100644
--- a/spring-aot/BUILD.bazel
+++ b/spring-aot/BUILD.bazel
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ java_library(
         "//extended:client-java-extended",
         "@maven//:com_google_code_gson_gson",
         "@maven//:io_swagger_swagger_annotations",
-        "@maven//:org_jetbrains_annotations",
         "@maven//:org_reflections_reflections",
         "@maven//:org_slf4j_slf4j_api",
         "@maven//:org_springframework_boot_spring_boot",
diff --git a/spring-aot/pom.xml b/spring-aot/pom.xml
index 5d4a026254..099b213535 100644
--- a/spring-aot/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-aot/pom.xml
@@ -61,13 +61,6 @@
             <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
             <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
         </dependency>
-
-        <!-- JetBrains annotations for NotNull -->
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.jetbrains</groupId>
-            <artifactId>annotations</artifactId>
-            <version>26.1.0</version>
-        </dependency>
     </dependencies>
     <build>
         <plugins>
diff --git a/spring-aot/src/main/java/io/kubernetes/client/spring/aot/KubernetesBeanFactoryInitializationAotProcessor.java b/spring-aot/src/main/java/io/kubernetes/client/spring/aot/KubernetesBeanFactoryInitializationAotProcessor.java
index 477b093c49..a531cc76fa 100644
--- a/spring-aot/src/main/java/io/kubernetes/client/spring/aot/KubernetesBeanFactoryInitializationAotProcessor.java
+++ b/spring-aot/src/main/java/io/kubernetes/client/spring/aot/KubernetesBeanFactoryInitializationAotProcessor.java
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
 import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.Set;
-import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
 import org.reflections.Reflections;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
@@ -30,6 +29,7 @@
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.aot.BeanFactoryInitializationAotProcessor;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.ConfigurableListableBeanFactory;
 import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.AutoConfigurationPackages;
+import org.springframework.lang.NonNull;
 
 /**
  * GraalVM native images need to know about when you might reflectively work with types at runtime.
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ public class KubernetesBeanFactoryInitializationAotProcessor
 
   @Override
   public BeanFactoryInitializationAotContribution processAheadOfTime(
-      @NotNull ConfigurableListableBeanFactory beanFactory) {
+      @NonNull ConfigurableListableBeanFactory beanFactory) {
     return (generationContext, beanFactoryInitializationCode) -> {
       RuntimeHints hints = generationContext.getRuntimeHints();
       String[] classNames =