diff --git a/jvm-packages/pom.xml b/jvm-packages/pom.xml
index dc11e307d..7bfb35a7f 100644
--- a/jvm-packages/pom.xml
+++ b/jvm-packages/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@
         <module>xgboost4j</module>
         <module>xgboost4j-demo</module>
         <module>xgboost4j-flink</module>
-        <module>xgboost4j-spark</module>
     </modules>
     <build>
         <plugins>
diff --git a/jvm-packages/xgboost4j/src/main/java/ml/dmlc/xgboost4j/LabeledPoint.java b/jvm-packages/xgboost4j/src/main/java/ml/dmlc/xgboost4j/LabeledPoint.java
index 19d4b7da9..fc14e361e 100644
--- a/jvm-packages/xgboost4j/src/main/java/ml/dmlc/xgboost4j/LabeledPoint.java
+++ b/jvm-packages/xgboost4j/src/main/java/ml/dmlc/xgboost4j/LabeledPoint.java
@@ -6,13 +6,13 @@ package ml.dmlc.xgboost4j;
  */
 public class LabeledPoint {
   /** Label of the point */
-  float label;
+  public float label;
   /** Weight of this data point */
-  float weight = 1.0f;
+  public float weight = 1.0f;
   /** Feature indices, used for sparse input */
-  int[] indices = null;
+  public int[] indices = null;
   /** Feature values */
-  float[] values;
+  public float[] values;
 
   private LabeledPoint() {}
 
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ public class LabeledPoint {
     ret.label = label;
     ret.indices = indices;
     ret.values = values;
+    assert indices.length == values.length;
     return ret;
   }
 
diff --git a/jvm-packages/xgboost4j/src/main/java/ml/dmlc/xgboost4j/java/DMatrix.java b/jvm-packages/xgboost4j/src/main/java/ml/dmlc/xgboost4j/java/DMatrix.java
index a5a9b4972..2a7461377 100644
--- a/jvm-packages/xgboost4j/src/main/java/ml/dmlc/xgboost4j/java/DMatrix.java
+++ b/jvm-packages/xgboost4j/src/main/java/ml/dmlc/xgboost4j/java/DMatrix.java
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ import java.util.Iterator;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
 
+import ml.dmlc.xgboost4j.LabeledPoint;
+
 /**
  * DMatrix for xgboost.
  *
@@ -52,20 +54,18 @@ public class DMatrix {
    * Create DMatrix from iterator.
    *
    * @param iter The data iterator of mini batch to provide the data.
-   * @param cache_info Cache path information, used for external memory setting, can be null.
+   * @param cacheInfo Cache path information, used for external memory setting, can be null.
    * @throws XGBoostError
    */
-  public DMatrix(Iterator<DataBatch> iter, String cache_info) throws XGBoostError {
+  public DMatrix(Iterator<LabeledPoint> iter, String cacheInfo) throws XGBoostError {
     if (iter == null) {
       throw new NullPointerException("iter: null");
     }
-    try {
-      logger.info(iter.getClass().getMethod("next").toString());
-    } catch(NoSuchMethodException e) {
-      logger.info(e.toString());
-    }
+    // 32k as batch size
+    int batchSize = 32 << 10;
+    Iterator<DataBatch> batchIter = new DataBatch.BatchIterator(iter, batchSize);
     long[] out = new long[1];
-    JNIErrorHandle.checkCall(XGBoostJNI.XGDMatrixCreateFromDataIter(iter, cache_info, out));
+    JNIErrorHandle.checkCall(XGBoostJNI.XGDMatrixCreateFromDataIter(batchIter, cacheInfo, out));
     handle = out[0];
   }
 
diff --git a/jvm-packages/xgboost4j/src/main/java/ml/dmlc/xgboost4j/java/DataBatch.java b/jvm-packages/xgboost4j/src/main/java/ml/dmlc/xgboost4j/java/DataBatch.java
index b4bbbe690..2a52d0b9b 100644
--- a/jvm-packages/xgboost4j/src/main/java/ml/dmlc/xgboost4j/java/DataBatch.java
+++ b/jvm-packages/xgboost4j/src/main/java/ml/dmlc/xgboost4j/java/DataBatch.java
@@ -1,12 +1,16 @@
 package ml.dmlc.xgboost4j.java;
 
+import java.util.Iterator;
+
+import ml.dmlc.xgboost4j.LabeledPoint;
+
 /**
  * A mini-batch of data that can be converted to DMatrix.
  * The data is in sparse matrix CSR format.
  *
  * This class is used to support advanced creation of DMatrix from Iterator of DataBatch,
  */
-public class DataBatch {
+class DataBatch {
   /** The offset of each rows in the sparse matrix */
   long[] rowOffset = null;
   /** weight of each data point, can be null */
@@ -51,4 +55,58 @@ public class DataBatch {
     b.featureValue = this.featureValue;
     return b;
   }
+
+  static class BatchIterator implements Iterator<DataBatch> {
+    private Iterator<LabeledPoint> base;
+    private int batchSize;
+
+    BatchIterator(java.util.Iterator<LabeledPoint> base, int batchSize) {
+      this.base = base;
+      this.batchSize = batchSize;
+    }
+    @Override
+    public boolean hasNext() {
+      return base.hasNext();
+    }
+    @Override
+    public DataBatch next() {
+      int num_rows = 0, num_elem = 0;
+      java.util.List<LabeledPoint> batch = new java.util.ArrayList<LabeledPoint>();
+      for (int i = 0; i < this.batchSize; ++i) {
+        if (!base.hasNext()) break;
+        LabeledPoint inst = base.next();
+        batch.add(inst);
+        num_elem += inst.values.length;
+        ++num_rows;
+      }
+      DataBatch ret = new DataBatch();
+      // label
+      ret.rowOffset = new long[num_rows + 1];
+      ret.label = new float[num_rows];
+      ret.featureIndex = new int[num_elem];
+      ret.featureValue = new float[num_elem];
+      // current offset
+      int offset = 0;
+      for (int i = 0; i < batch.size(); ++i) {
+        LabeledPoint inst = batch.get(i);
+        ret.rowOffset[i] = offset;
+        ret.label[i] = inst.label;
+        if (inst.indices != null) {
+          System.arraycopy(inst.indices, 0, ret.featureIndex, offset, inst.indices.length);
+        } else{
+          for (int j = 0; j < inst.values.length; ++j) {
+            ret.featureIndex[offset + j] = j;
+          }
+        }
+        System.arraycopy(inst.values, 0, ret.featureValue, offset, inst.values.length);
+        offset += inst.values.length;
+      }
+      ret.rowOffset[batch.size()] = offset;
+      return ret;
+    }
+    @Override
+    public void remove() {
+      throw new Error("not implemented");
+    }
+  }
 }
diff --git a/jvm-packages/xgboost4j/src/main/scala/ml/dmlc/xgboost4j/scala/DMatrix.scala b/jvm-packages/xgboost4j/src/main/scala/ml/dmlc/xgboost4j/scala/DMatrix.scala
index c62784c08..cdf3a9844 100644
--- a/jvm-packages/xgboost4j/src/main/scala/ml/dmlc/xgboost4j/scala/DMatrix.scala
+++ b/jvm-packages/xgboost4j/src/main/scala/ml/dmlc/xgboost4j/scala/DMatrix.scala
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 package ml.dmlc.xgboost4j.scala
 
 import _root_.scala.collection.JavaConverters._
-
+import ml.dmlc.xgboost4j.LabeledPoint
 import ml.dmlc.xgboost4j.java.{DMatrix => JDMatrix, DataBatch, XGBoostError}
 
 class DMatrix private[scala](private[scala] val jDMatrix: JDMatrix) {
@@ -31,6 +31,17 @@ class DMatrix private[scala](private[scala] val jDMatrix: JDMatrix) {
     this(new JDMatrix(dataPath))
   }
 
+  /**
+    *  init DMatrix from Iterator of LabeledPoint
+    *
+    * @param dataIter An iterator of LabeledPoint
+    * @param cacheInfo  Cache path information, used for external memory setting, can be null.
+    * @throws XGBoostError native error
+    */
+  def this(dataIter: Iterator[LabeledPoint], cacheInfo: String) {
+    this(new JDMatrix(dataIter.asJava, cacheInfo))
+  }
+
   /**
    * create DMatrix from sparse matrix
    *
@@ -44,10 +55,6 @@ class DMatrix private[scala](private[scala] val jDMatrix: JDMatrix) {
     this(new JDMatrix(headers, indices, data, st))
   }
 
-  private[xgboost4j] def this(dataBatches: Iterator[DataBatch]) {
-    this(new JDMatrix(dataBatches.asJava, null))
-  }
-
   /**
    * create DMatrix from dense matrix
    *
diff --git a/jvm-packages/xgboost4j/src/test/java/ml/dmlc/xgboost4j/java/DMatrixTest.java b/jvm-packages/xgboost4j/src/test/java/ml/dmlc/xgboost4j/java/DMatrixTest.java
index 056291ddf..d9004b418 100644
--- a/jvm-packages/xgboost4j/src/test/java/ml/dmlc/xgboost4j/java/DMatrixTest.java
+++ b/jvm-packages/xgboost4j/src/test/java/ml/dmlc/xgboost4j/java/DMatrixTest.java
@@ -15,10 +15,12 @@
  */
 package ml.dmlc.xgboost4j.java;
 
+import java.awt.*;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Random;
 
 import junit.framework.TestCase;
+import ml.dmlc.xgboost4j.LabeledPoint;
 import ml.dmlc.xgboost4j.java.DMatrix;
 import ml.dmlc.xgboost4j.java.DataBatch;
 import ml.dmlc.xgboost4j.java.XGBoostError;
@@ -34,33 +36,19 @@ public class DMatrixTest {
   @Test
   public void testCreateFromDataIterator() throws XGBoostError {
     //create DMatrix from DataIterator
-    /**
-     * sparse matrix
-     * 1 0 2 3 0
-     * 4 0 2 3 5
-     * 3 1 2 5 0
-     */
-    DataBatch batch = new DataBatch();
-    batch.featureIndex = new int[]{0, 2, 3, 0, 2, 3, 4, 0, 1, 2, 3};
-    batch.featureValue = new float[]{1, 2, 3, 4, 2, 3, 5, 3, 1, 2, 5};
-    batch.rowOffset = new long[]{0, 3, 7, 11};
-    batch.label = new float[] {0.1f, 0.2f, 0.3f};
+
     java.util.ArrayList<Float> labelall = new java.util.ArrayList<Float>();
-    int nrep = 3;
-    java.util.List<DataBatch> blist = new java.util.LinkedList<DataBatch>();
+    int nrep = 3000;
+    java.util.List<LabeledPoint> blist = new java.util.LinkedList<LabeledPoint>();
     for (int i = 0; i < nrep; ++i) {
-      batch.label = new float[] {0.1f+i, 0.2f+i, 0.3f+i};
-      blist.add(batch.shallowCopy());
-      for (float f : batch.label) {
-        labelall.add(f);
-      }
+      LabeledPoint p = LabeledPoint.fromSparseVector(
+              0.1f + i, new int[]{0, 2, 3}, new float[]{3, 4, 5});
+      blist.add(p);
+      labelall.add(p.label);
     }
     DMatrix dmat = new DMatrix(blist.iterator(), null);
     // get label
     float[] labels = dmat.getLabel();
-    // get label
-    TestCase.assertTrue(batch.label.length * nrep == labels.length);
-
     for (int i = 0; i < labels.length; ++i) {
       TestCase.assertTrue(labelall.get(i) == labels[i]);
     }