diff --git a/independent-projects/resteasy-reactive/server/vertx/src/main/java/org/jboss/resteasy/reactive/server/vertx/ResteasyReactiveOutputStream.java b/independent-projects/resteasy-reactive/server/vertx/src/main/java/org/jboss/resteasy/reactive/server/vertx/ResteasyReactiveOutputStream.java
index 7d8b00d4faaee..40095ddcaf425 100644
--- a/independent-projects/resteasy-reactive/server/vertx/src/main/java/org/jboss/resteasy/reactive/server/vertx/ResteasyReactiveOutputStream.java
+++ b/independent-projects/resteasy-reactive/server/vertx/src/main/java/org/jboss/resteasy/reactive/server/vertx/ResteasyReactiveOutputStream.java
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 import javax.ws.rs.core.HttpHeaders;
 import javax.ws.rs.core.MultivaluedMap;
 
+import io.netty.buffer.Unpooled;
 import org.jboss.logging.Logger;
 import org.jboss.resteasy.reactive.server.core.LazyResponse;
 import org.jboss.resteasy.reactive.server.core.ResteasyReactiveRequestContext;
@@ -24,6 +25,7 @@
 public class ResteasyReactiveOutputStream extends OutputStream {
 
     private static final Logger log = Logger.getLogger("org.jboss.resteasy.reactive.server.vertx.ResteasyReactiveOutputStream");
+    private static final Buffer EMPTY_BUFFER = Buffer.buffer(Unpooled.EMPTY_BUFFER);
     private final ResteasyReactiveRequestContext context;
     protected final HttpServerRequest request;
     private final int outputBufferSize;
@@ -80,7 +82,7 @@ Buffer createBuffer(ByteBuf data) {
 
     public void write(ByteBuf data, boolean last) throws IOException {
         if (last && data == null) {
-            request.response().end();
+            request.response().end(EMPTY_BUFFER, null);
             return;
         }
         //do all this in the same lock
@@ -104,9 +106,9 @@ public void write(ByteBuf data, boolean last) throws IOException {
                     data.release();
                 } else {
                     if (last) {
-                        request.response().end(createBuffer(data));
+                        request.response().end(createBuffer(data), null);
                     } else {
-                        request.response().write(createBuffer(data));
+                        request.response().write(createBuffer(data), null);
                     }
                 }
             } catch (Exception e) {
@@ -160,9 +162,9 @@ public void handle(Void event) {
                         if (overflow != null) {
                             if (overflow.size() > 0) {
                                 if (closed) {
-                                    request.response().end(Buffer.buffer(overflow.toByteArray()));
+                                    request.response().end(Buffer.buffer(overflow.toByteArray()), null);
                                 } else {
-                                    request.response().write(Buffer.buffer(overflow.toByteArray()));
+                                    request.response().write(Buffer.buffer(overflow.toByteArray()), null);
                                 }
                                 overflow.reset();
                             }