diff --git a/persistence-modules/pom.xml b/persistence-modules/pom.xml
index 15b62d5d77..675f8270eb 100644
--- a/persistence-modules/pom.xml
+++ b/persistence-modules/pom.xml
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@
         <module>spring-jpa</module>
         <!-- <module>spring-mybatis</module> --> <!-- needs fixing in BAEL-9021 -->
         <module>spring-persistence-simple</module>
+        <module>spring-persistence-simple-2</module>
     </modules>
 
 </project>
diff --git a/persistence-modules/spring-persistence-simple-2/.gitignore b/persistence-modules/spring-persistence-simple-2/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 83c05e60c8..0000000000
--- a/persistence-modules/spring-persistence-simple-2/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-*.class
-
-#folders#
-/target
-/neoDb*
-/data
-/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/classes
-*/META-INF/*
-
-# Packaged files #
-*.jar
-*.war
-*.ear
\ No newline at end of file