diff --git a/cassandra/example/Readme.MD b/cassandra/example/Readme.MD
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+# Spring Data Cassandra Example Application
+
+## Preparation
+
+### Install Cassandra
+Before we can start we have to install Cassandra, e.g. via brew on Max OS.
+```
+brew install cassandra
+pip install cassandra-driver
+brew install cassandra-driver
+
+More details can be found here: https://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/GettingStarted
+```
+
+### Start Cassandra
+```
+/usr/local/bin/cassandra -f
+```
+
+### Start a Cassandra shell cqlsh
+```
+/usr/local/bin/cqlsh
+```
+
+### Setup Keyspace and Tables
+
+```
+CREATE KEYSPACE example
+WITH REPLICATION = { 'class' : 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor' : 1 };
+
+USE example;
+
+CREATE TABLE users (
+ user_id int PRIMARY KEY,
+ uname text,
+ fname text,
+ lname text
+);
+```
+
+That should be enough to get you started.
+Now you can simply type ```mvn clean install``` to run the example.
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diff --git a/cassandra/example/pom.xml b/cassandra/example/pom.xml
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+
+ 4.0.0
+
+ spring-data-cassandra-example
+
+
+ org.springframework.data.examples
+ spring-data-cassandra-examples
+ 1.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT
+ ../pom.xml
+
+
+ Spring Data Cassandra - Example
+ Small sample project showing the usage of Spring Data Cassandra.
+
+
diff --git a/cassandra/example/src/main/java/example/springdata/cassandra/simple/SimpleConfiguration.java b/cassandra/example/src/main/java/example/springdata/cassandra/simple/SimpleConfiguration.java
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@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2014 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 example.springdata.cassandra.simple;
+
+import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.EnableAutoConfiguration;
+import org.springframework.cassandra.config.java.AbstractCqlTemplateConfiguration;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
+import org.springframework.data.cassandra.core.CassandraTemplate;
+import org.springframework.data.cassandra.repository.config.EnableCassandraRepositories;
+
+import com.datastax.driver.core.Session;
+
+/**
+ * @author Oliver Gierke
+ * @author Thomas Darimont
+ */
+@Configuration
+@EnableAutoConfiguration
+class SimpleConfiguration {
+
+ @Configuration
+ @EnableCassandraRepositories
+ static class CassandraConfig extends AbstractCqlTemplateConfiguration {
+
+ @Override
+ public String getKeyspaceName() {
+ return "example";
+ }
+
+ @Bean
+ public CassandraTemplate cassandraTemplate(Session session) {
+ return new CassandraTemplate(session);
+ }
+ }
+}
diff --git a/cassandra/example/src/main/java/example/springdata/cassandra/simple/SimpleUserRepository.java b/cassandra/example/src/main/java/example/springdata/cassandra/simple/SimpleUserRepository.java
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2013-2014 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 example.springdata.cassandra.simple;
+
+import org.springframework.data.repository.CrudRepository;
+
+/**
+ * Simple repository interface for {@link User} instances. The interface is used to declare so called query methods,
+ * methods to retrieve single entities or collections of them.
+ *
+ * @author Thomas Darimont
+ */
+public interface SimpleUserRepository extends CrudRepository {}
diff --git a/cassandra/example/src/main/java/example/springdata/cassandra/simple/User.java b/cassandra/example/src/main/java/example/springdata/cassandra/simple/User.java
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@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2013-2014 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 example.springdata.cassandra.simple;
+
+import lombok.Data;
+import lombok.NoArgsConstructor;
+
+import org.springframework.data.cassandra.mapping.Column;
+import org.springframework.data.cassandra.mapping.PrimaryKey;
+import org.springframework.data.cassandra.mapping.Table;
+
+/**
+ * Sample user class.
+ *
+ * @author Oliver Gierke
+ * @author Thomas Darimont
+ */
+@Data
+@NoArgsConstructor
+@Table(value = "users")
+public class User {
+
+ @PrimaryKey("user_id") private Long id;
+
+ @Column("uname") private String username;
+ @Column("fname") private String firstname;
+ @Column("lname") private String lastname;
+
+ public User(Long id) {
+ this.setId(id);
+ }
+}
diff --git a/cassandra/example/src/main/java/example/springdata/cassandra/simple/package-info.java b/cassandra/example/src/main/java/example/springdata/cassandra/simple/package-info.java
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+++ b/cassandra/example/src/main/java/example/springdata/cassandra/simple/package-info.java
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+/**
+ * Package showing a simple repository interface to use basic query method execution functionality.
+ */
+package example.springdata.cassandra.simple;
+
diff --git a/cassandra/example/src/test/java/example/springdata/cassandra/simple/SimpleUserRepositoryTests.java b/cassandra/example/src/test/java/example/springdata/cassandra/simple/SimpleUserRepositoryTests.java
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@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2013-2014 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 example.springdata.cassandra.simple;
+
+import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.*;
+import static org.junit.Assert.*;
+
+import org.junit.Before;
+import org.junit.Ignore;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
+import org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration;
+import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;
+
+/**
+ * Integration test showing the basic usage of {@link SimpleUserRepository}.
+ *
+ * @author Oliver Gierke
+ * @author Thomas Darimont
+ * @author Christoph Strobl
+ */
+@Ignore
+@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
+@ContextConfiguration(classes = SimpleConfiguration.class)
+public class SimpleUserRepositoryTests {
+
+ @Autowired SimpleUserRepository repository;
+ User user;
+
+ @Before
+ public void setUp() {
+
+ user = new User();
+ user.setId(42L);
+ user.setUsername("foobar");
+ user.setFirstname("firstname");
+ user.setLastname("lastname");
+ }
+
+ @Test
+ public void findSavedUserById() {
+
+ user = repository.save(user);
+
+ assertThat(repository.findOne(user.getId()), is(user));
+ }
+}
diff --git a/cassandra/pom.xml b/cassandra/pom.xml
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+++ b/cassandra/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+
+ 4.0.0
+
+ spring-data-cassandra-examples
+ pom
+
+
+ org.springframework.data.examples
+ spring-data-examples
+ 1.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT
+
+
+ Spring Data Cassandra - Examples
+ Sample projects for Spring Data Cassandra
+ http://projects.spring.io/spring-data-cassandra
+ 2014
+
+
+ example
+
+
+
+
+
+ org.springframework.boot
+ spring-boot-starter-aop
+
+
+
+ org.springframework.data
+ spring-data-cassandra
+
+
+
+ org.springframework.boot
+ spring-boot-starter-test
+ test
+
+
+
+
+
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 511aeb7a..c864435e 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
rest
redis
solr
+ cassandra