diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index b7f501997..3ebc82d28 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 		<eclipselink>3.0.3</eclipselink>
 		<hibernate>6.2.1.Final</hibernate>
 		<hsqldb>2.7.1</hsqldb>
+		<h2>2.1.214</h2>
 		<jsqlparser>4.5</jsqlparser>
 		<mysql-connector-java>8.0.31</mysql-connector-java>
 		<postgresql>42.5.0</postgresql>
diff --git a/spring-data-jpa/pom.xml b/spring-data-jpa/pom.xml
index f4560082c..4f2c403f7 100644
--- a/spring-data-jpa/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-data-jpa/pom.xml
@@ -100,6 +100,13 @@
 			<scope>test</scope>
 		</dependency>
 
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
+			<artifactId>h2</artifactId>
+			<version>${h2}</version>
+			<scope>test</scope>
+		</dependency>
+
 		<!-- MySQL testing support -->
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>com.mysql</groupId>
diff --git a/spring-data-jpa/src/main/antlr4/org/springframework/data/jpa/repository/query/Hql.g4 b/spring-data-jpa/src/main/antlr4/org/springframework/data/jpa/repository/query/Hql.g4
index 731bb16c7..b702bad0c 100644
--- a/spring-data-jpa/src/main/antlr4/org/springframework/data/jpa/repository/query/Hql.g4
+++ b/spring-data-jpa/src/main/antlr4/org/springframework/data/jpa/repository/query/Hql.g4
@@ -579,7 +579,7 @@ dealingWithNullExpression
 
 // https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/6.1/userguide/html_single/Hibernate_User_Guide.html#hql-like-predicate
 stringPatternMatching
-    : expression NOT? (LIKE | ILIKE) expression (ESCAPE expression)?
+    : expression NOT? (LIKE | ILIKE) expression (ESCAPE (character|parameter))?
     ;
 
 // https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/6.1/userguide/html_single/Hibernate_User_Guide.html#hql-elements-indices
diff --git a/spring-data-jpa/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/jpa/repository/query/HqlQueryRenderer.java b/spring-data-jpa/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/jpa/repository/query/HqlQueryRenderer.java
index 5446173ca..17458b20e 100644
--- a/spring-data-jpa/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/jpa/repository/query/HqlQueryRenderer.java
+++ b/spring-data-jpa/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/jpa/repository/query/HqlQueryRenderer.java
@@ -2124,7 +2124,11 @@ class HqlQueryRenderer extends HqlBaseVisitor<List<JpaQueryParsingToken>> {
 		if (ctx.ESCAPE() != null) {
 
 			tokens.add(new JpaQueryParsingToken(ctx.ESCAPE()));
-			tokens.addAll(visit(ctx.expression(2)));
+			if (ctx.character() != null) {
+				tokens.addAll(visit(ctx.character()));
+			} else if (ctx.parameter() != null) {
+				tokens.addAll(visit(ctx.parameter()));
+			}
 		}
 
 		return tokens;
diff --git a/spring-data-jpa/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/jpa/repository/EclipseLinkUserRepositoryFinderTests.java b/spring-data-jpa/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/jpa/repository/EclipseLinkUserRepositoryFinderTests.java
index 1b6bc2a7b..473331252 100644
--- a/spring-data-jpa/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/jpa/repository/EclipseLinkUserRepositoryFinderTests.java
+++ b/spring-data-jpa/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/jpa/repository/EclipseLinkUserRepositoryFinderTests.java
@@ -23,8 +23,9 @@ import org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration;
  * https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=349477.
  *
  * @author Oliver Gierke
+ * @author Greg Turnquist
  */
-@ContextConfiguration("classpath:eclipselink.xml")
+@ContextConfiguration("classpath:eclipselink-h2.xml")
 class EclipseLinkUserRepositoryFinderTests extends UserRepositoryFinderTests {
 
 	@Disabled
@@ -35,21 +36,4 @@ class EclipseLinkUserRepositoryFinderTests extends UserRepositoryFinderTests {
 	@Override
 	void executesInKeywordForPageCorrectly() {}
 
-	@Disabled("Can't get ESCAPE clause working with EclipseLink. See #2955")
-	@Override
-	void escapingInLikeSpels() {
-		super.escapingInLikeSpels();
-	}
-
-	@Disabled("Can't get ESCAPE clause working with EclipseLink. See #2955")
-	@Override
-	void escapingInLikeSpelsInThePresenceOfEscapeCharacters() {
-		super.escapingInLikeSpelsInThePresenceOfEscapeCharacters();
-	}
-
-	@Disabled("Can't get ESCAPE clause working with EclipseLink. See #2955")
-	@Override
-	void escapingInLikeSpelsInThePresenceOfEscapedWildcards() {
-		super.escapingInLikeSpelsInThePresenceOfEscapedWildcards();
-	}
 }
diff --git a/spring-data-jpa/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/jpa/repository/UserRepositoryFinderTests.java b/spring-data-jpa/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/jpa/repository/UserRepositoryFinderTests.java
index bccc417ea..4b6c4bb9e 100644
--- a/spring-data-jpa/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/jpa/repository/UserRepositoryFinderTests.java
+++ b/spring-data-jpa/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/jpa/repository/UserRepositoryFinderTests.java
@@ -52,10 +52,11 @@ import org.springframework.transaction.annotation.Transactional;
  *
  * @author Oliver Gierke
  * @author Krzysztof Krason
+ * @author Greg Turnquist
  * @see QueryLookupStrategy
  */
 @ExtendWith(SpringExtension.class)
-@ContextConfiguration(locations = "classpath:config/namespace-application-context.xml")
+@ContextConfiguration(locations = "classpath:config/namespace-application-context-h2.xml")
 @Transactional
 class UserRepositoryFinderTests {
 
diff --git a/spring-data-jpa/src/test/resources/config/namespace-application-context-h2.xml b/spring-data-jpa/src/test/resources/config/namespace-application-context-h2.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9cb3eab27
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-data-jpa/src/test/resources/config/namespace-application-context-h2.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
+	   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+	   xmlns:jpa="http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa"
+	   xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa https://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa/spring-jpa.xsd">
+
+	<import resource="../infrastructure-h2.xml"/>
+
+	<!--
+
+		Simplified DAO configuration:
+
+		1. Looks for DAO interfaces in ${dao-config.dao-package-name} named ${dao.name}Dao
+		2. Uses entity classes from ${dao-config.entity-package-name}
+		3. Registers daos under ${dao.name}Dao in the applicationContext
+		4. Add postfix attributes to dao-config element as needed
+
+		You can register DAOs as needed by simply adding "dao" elements named after domain classes
+		and provide an DAO interface named as described above.
+
+		! Note, that PersistenceAnnotationBeanPostProcessor and PersistenceExceptionTranslationPostProcessor !
+		! do not have to be explicitly registered as they are included by namespace parser				   !
+
+	-->
+	<jpa:repositories base-package="org.springframework.data.jpa.repository.sample"/>
+
+	<!-- Register custom DAO implementation explicitly -->
+	<bean id="userRepositoryImpl" class="org.springframework.data.jpa.repository.sample.UserRepositoryImpl"/>
+
+</beans>
diff --git a/spring-data-jpa/src/test/resources/eclipselink-h2.xml b/spring-data-jpa/src/test/resources/eclipselink-h2.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..71d4ab637
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-data-jpa/src/test/resources/eclipselink-h2.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
+	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+	xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/util https://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util.xsd">
+
+	<!-- EclipseLink vendor adaptor with workaround platform class for HSQL usage -->
+	<bean id="vendorAdaptor" class="org.springframework.data.jpa.repository.CustomEclipseLinkJpaVendorAdapter" parent="abstractVendorAdaptor" />
+
+	<util:properties id="jpaProperties">
+		<prop key="jakarta.persistence.jdbc.driver">org.h2.Driver</prop>
+		<prop key="jakarta.persistence.jdbc.url">jdbc:h2:mem:hades</prop>
+		<prop key="jakarta.persistence.jdbc.user">sa</prop>
+		<prop key="jakarta.persistence.jdbc.password"></prop>
+		<prop key="jakarta.persistence.ddl-generation">create-tables</prop>
+		<prop key="eclipselink.weaving.internal">false</prop>
+		<prop key="eclipselink.logging.level">SEVERE</prop>
+	</util:properties>
+
+</beans>
diff --git a/spring-data-jpa/src/test/resources/infrastructure-h2.xml b/spring-data-jpa/src/test/resources/infrastructure-h2.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..723454c01
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-data-jpa/src/test/resources/infrastructure-h2.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
+	   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+	   xmlns:jdbc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc"
+	   xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc https://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc/spring-jdbc.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">
+
+	<import resource="hibernate.xml"/>
+
+	<bean id="entityManagerFactory"
+		  class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
+		<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
+		<property name="persistenceUnitName" value="spring-data-jpa"/>
+		<property name="jpaVendorAdapter" ref="vendorAdaptor"/>
+		<property name="jpaProperties" ref="jpaProperties"/>
+	</bean>
+
+	<bean id="abstractVendorAdaptor" abstract="true">
+		<property name="generateDdl" value="true"/>
+		<property name="database" value="H2"/>
+	</bean>
+
+	<bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager">
+		<property name="entityManagerFactory" ref="entityManagerFactory"/>
+	</bean>
+
+	<bean name="sampleEvaluationContextExtension"
+		  class="org.springframework.data.jpa.repository.sample.SampleEvaluationContextExtension"/>
+
+	<jdbc:embedded-database id="dataSource" type="H2" generate-name="true">
+		<jdbc:script execution="INIT" separator="/;" location="classpath:scripts/h2-init.sql"/>
+		<jdbc:script execution="INIT" separator="/;" location="classpath:scripts/h2-stored-procedures.sql"/>
+	</jdbc:embedded-database>
+
+</beans>
diff --git a/spring-data-jpa/src/test/resources/scripts/h2-init.sql b/spring-data-jpa/src/test/resources/scripts/h2-init.sql
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1c8a0e797
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-data-jpa/src/test/resources/scripts/h2-init.sql
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+;
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/spring-data-jpa/src/test/resources/scripts/h2-stored-procedures.sql b/spring-data-jpa/src/test/resources/scripts/h2-stored-procedures.sql
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1023dc1a3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-data-jpa/src/test/resources/scripts/h2-stored-procedures.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+/;
+DROP alias IF EXISTS plus1inout
+/;
+CREATE alias plus1inout AS $$
+Integer plus1inout(Integer arg) {
+    return arg + 1;
+}
+$$
+/;