diff --git a/vaadin-spring/src/main/java/com/vaadin/flow/spring/data/CountService.java b/vaadin-spring/src/main/java/com/vaadin/flow/spring/data/CountService.java
index 8105ea82da5..8bc1294f3b3 100644
--- a/vaadin-spring/src/main/java/com/vaadin/flow/spring/data/CountService.java
+++ b/vaadin-spring/src/main/java/com/vaadin/flow/spring/data/CountService.java
@@ -9,6 +9,15 @@
  */
 public interface CountService {
 
+    /**
+     * Counts the number of items, without any filtering.
+     *
+     * @return the number of items in the service
+     */
+    default long count() {
+        return count(null);
+    }
+
     /**
      * Counts the number of items that match the given filter.
      *
@@ -16,6 +25,6 @@ public interface CountService {
      *            the filter, or {@code null} to use no filter
      * @return the number of items in the service that match the filter
      */
-    public long count(@Nullable Filter filter);
+    long count(@Nullable Filter filter);
 
 }
diff --git a/vaadin-spring/src/main/java/com/vaadin/flow/spring/data/ListService.java b/vaadin-spring/src/main/java/com/vaadin/flow/spring/data/ListService.java
index 237efd7afb6..c83ab5542e3 100644
--- a/vaadin-spring/src/main/java/com/vaadin/flow/spring/data/ListService.java
+++ b/vaadin-spring/src/main/java/com/vaadin/flow/spring/data/ListService.java
@@ -14,6 +14,18 @@
  *            the type of object to list
  */
 public interface ListService<T> {
+    /**
+     * Lists objects of the given type using the paging and sorting
+     * options provided in the parameters.
+     *
+     * @param pageable
+     *            contains information about paging and sorting
+     * @return a list of objects or an empty list if no objects were found
+     */
+    default List<T> list(Pageable pageable) {
+        return list(pageable, null);
+    }
+
     /**
      * Lists objects of the given type using the paging, sorting and filtering
      * options provided in the parameters.