diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 38812f09bf..f608f5cded 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -433,6 +433,7 @@
 				<module>spring-data-couchbase-2</module>
 				<module>persistence-modules/spring-data-dynamodb</module>
 				<module>spring-data-elasticsearch</module>
+				<module>spring-data-jpa</module>
 				<module>spring-data-keyvalue</module>
 				<module>spring-data-mongodb</module>
 				<module>persistence-modules/spring-data-neo4j</module>
diff --git a/spring-data-jpa/pom.xml b/spring-data-jpa/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..517d43bd0e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-data-jpa/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
+         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+    <parent>
+        <artifactId>parent-boot-2</artifactId>
+        <groupId>com.baeldung</groupId>
+        <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <relativePath>../parent-boot-2</relativePath>
+    </parent>
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+    <artifactId>spring-data-jpa</artifactId>
+
+    <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
+            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
+            <artifactId>h2</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+    </dependencies>
+
+</project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/spring-data-jpa/src/main/java/com/baeldung/Application.java b/spring-data-jpa/src/main/java/com/baeldung/Application.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..43888c2d67
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-data-jpa/src/main/java/com/baeldung/Application.java
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+package com.baeldung;
+
+import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
+import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
+import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
+
+@SpringBootApplication
+public class Application {
+    private static ApplicationContext applicationContext;
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) {
+        applicationContext = SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/spring-boot-persistence/src/main/java/com/baeldung/domain/Article.java b/spring-data-jpa/src/main/java/com/baeldung/domain/Article.java
similarity index 100%
rename from spring-boot-persistence/src/main/java/com/baeldung/domain/Article.java
rename to spring-data-jpa/src/main/java/com/baeldung/domain/Article.java
diff --git a/spring-boot-persistence/src/main/java/com/baeldung/repository/ArticleRepository.java b/spring-data-jpa/src/main/java/com/baeldung/repository/ArticleRepository.java
similarity index 100%
rename from spring-boot-persistence/src/main/java/com/baeldung/repository/ArticleRepository.java
rename to spring-data-jpa/src/main/java/com/baeldung/repository/ArticleRepository.java
diff --git a/spring-boot-persistence/src/test/java/com/baeldung/repository/ArticleRepositoryIntegrationTest.java b/spring-data-jpa/src/test/java/com/baeldung/repository/ArticleRepositoryIntegrationTest.java
similarity index 97%
rename from spring-boot-persistence/src/test/java/com/baeldung/repository/ArticleRepositoryIntegrationTest.java
rename to spring-data-jpa/src/test/java/com/baeldung/repository/ArticleRepositoryIntegrationTest.java
index 7d531d1461..dd1fe66a0d 100644
--- a/spring-boot-persistence/src/test/java/com/baeldung/repository/ArticleRepositoryIntegrationTest.java
+++ b/spring-data-jpa/src/test/java/com/baeldung/repository/ArticleRepositoryIntegrationTest.java
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package com.baeldung.repository;
 
 import com.baeldung.domain.Article;
+import com.baeldung.repository.ArticleRepository;
 import org.junit.Test;
 import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
diff --git a/spring-data-jpa/src/test/resources/application.properties b/spring-data-jpa/src/test/resources/application.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..de6ee2e6b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-data-jpa/src/test/resources/application.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+# spring.datasource.x
+spring.datasource.driver-class-name=org.h2.Driver
+spring.datasource.url=jdbc:h2:mem:db;DB_CLOSE_DELAY=-1
+spring.datasource.username=sa
+spring.datasource.password=sa
+
+# hibernate.X
+hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.H2Dialect
+hibernate.show_sql=true
+hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto=create-drop
+hibernate.cache.use_second_level_cache=true
+hibernate.cache.use_query_cache=true
+hibernate.cache.region.factory_class=org.hibernate.cache.ehcache.EhCacheRegionFactory
+
+spring.datasource.data=import_articles.sql
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/spring-boot-persistence/src/test/resources/import_articles.sql b/spring-data-jpa/src/test/resources/import_articles.sql
similarity index 100%
rename from spring-boot-persistence/src/test/resources/import_articles.sql
rename to spring-data-jpa/src/test/resources/import_articles.sql