The PagingAndSortingRepository defines methods that provide the functionality to divide the ResultSet into pages as well as sort the results:

   public interface PagingAndSortingRepository<T, ID extends
     Serializable>
     extends CrudRepository<T, ID> {
       Iterable<T> findAll(Sort sort);
       Page<T> findAll(Pageable pageable);
    }

We will look at examples of using the Sort class and Page, Pageable interfaces in the section on Spring Data JPA.