diff --git a/spring-batch-infrastructure/src/main/java/org/springframework/batch/item/support/IteratorItemReader.java b/spring-batch-infrastructure/src/main/java/org/springframework/batch/item/support/IteratorItemReader.java
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2006-2007 the original author or authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.springframework.batch.item.support;
+
+import java.util.Iterator;
+
+import org.springframework.batch.item.ItemReader;
+import org.springframework.batch.item.ParseException;
+import org.springframework.batch.item.UnexpectedInputException;
+import org.springframework.util.Assert;
+
+/**
+ * An {@link ItemReader} that pulls data from a {@link Iterator} or
+ * {@link Iterable} using the constructors.
+ * 
+ * @author Juliusz Brzostek
+ * @author Dave Syer
+ */
+public class IteratorItemReader<T> implements ItemReader<T> {
+
+	/**
+	 * Internal iterator
+	 */
+	private final Iterator<T> iterator;
+
+	/**
+	 * Construct a new reader from this iterable (could be a collection), by
+	 * extracting an instance of {@link Iterator} from it.
+	 * 
+	 * @param iterable in instance of {@link Iterable}
+	 * 
+	 * @see Iterable#iterator()
+	 */
+	public IteratorItemReader(Iterable<T> iterable) {
+		Assert.notNull(iterable, "Iterable argument cannot be null!");
+		this.iterator = iterable.iterator();
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Construct a new reader from this iterator directly.
+	 * @param iterator an instance of {@link Iterator}
+	 */
+	public IteratorItemReader(Iterator<T> iterator) {
+		Assert.notNull(iterator, "Iterator argument cannot be null!");
+		this.iterator = iterator;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Implementation of {@link ItemReader#read()} that just iterates over the
+	 * iterator provided.
+	 */
+	public T read() throws Exception, UnexpectedInputException, ParseException {
+		if (iterator.hasNext())
+			return iterator.next();
+		else
+			return null; // end of data
+	}
+
+}
diff --git a/spring-batch-infrastructure/src/test/java/org/springframework/batch/item/support/IteratorItemReaderTests.java b/spring-batch-infrastructure/src/test/java/org/springframework/batch/item/support/IteratorItemReaderTests.java
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2006-2007 the original author or authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.springframework.batch.item.support;
+
+import java.util.Arrays;
+
+import junit.framework.TestCase;
+
+public class IteratorItemReaderTests extends TestCase{
+
+    public void testIterable() throws Exception {
+        IteratorItemReader<String> reader = new IteratorItemReader<String>(Arrays.asList(new String[] { "a", "b", "c" }));
+        assertEquals("a", reader.read());
+        assertEquals("b", reader.read());
+        assertEquals("c", reader.read());
+        assertEquals(null, reader.read());
+    }
+
+    public void testIterator() throws Exception {
+        IteratorItemReader<String> reader = new IteratorItemReader<String>(Arrays.asList(new String[] { "a", "b", "c" }).iterator());
+        assertEquals("a", reader.read());
+        assertEquals("b", reader.read());
+        assertEquals("c", reader.read());
+        assertEquals(null, reader.read());
+    }
+
+}