diff --git a/properties/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/javaprop/JavaPropsGenerator.java b/properties/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/javaprop/JavaPropsGenerator.java
index 0099aff7..e4e50218 100644
--- a/properties/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/javaprop/JavaPropsGenerator.java
+++ b/properties/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/javaprop/JavaPropsGenerator.java
@@ -144,6 +144,9 @@ public void setSchema(FormatSchema schema) {
                     _basePath.append(indent);
                     _jpropContext = JPropWriteContext.createRootContext(_indentLength);
                 }
+                if (_schema.prefix() != null) {
+                    _basePath.append(_schema.prefix());
+                }
             }
             return;
         }
diff --git a/properties/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/javaprop/JavaPropsSchema.java b/properties/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/javaprop/JavaPropsSchema.java
index fda518df..4d2bc58f 100644
--- a/properties/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/javaprop/JavaPropsSchema.java
+++ b/properties/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/javaprop/JavaPropsSchema.java
@@ -139,6 +139,12 @@ public class JavaPropsSchema
      */
     protected String _header = "";
 
+    /**
+     * Optional prefix to strip and append to key names.
+     * Useful when subset of properties need to be processed.
+     */
+    protected String _prefix;
+
     /*
     /**********************************************************************
     /* Construction, factories, mutant factories
@@ -157,6 +163,7 @@ public JavaPropsSchema(JavaPropsSchema base) {
         _keyValueSeparator = base._keyValueSeparator;
         _lineEnding = base._lineEnding;
         _header = base._header;
+        _prefix = base._prefix;
     }
 
     /**
@@ -287,6 +294,15 @@ public JavaPropsSchema withLineEnding(String v) {
         return s;
     }
 
+    public JavaPropsSchema withPrefix(String v) {
+        if (_equals(v, _prefix)) {
+            return this;
+        }
+        JavaPropsSchema s = new JavaPropsSchema(this);
+        s._prefix = v;
+        return s;
+    }
+
     /**
      * Mutant factory for constructing schema instance where specified
      * header section (piece of text written out right before actual
@@ -371,6 +387,10 @@ public String pathSeparator() {
         return _pathSeparator;
     }
 
+    public String prefix() {
+        return _prefix;
+    }
+
     public boolean writeIndexUsingMarkers() {
         return _writeIndexUsingMarkers && (_indexMarker != null);
     }
diff --git a/properties/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/javaprop/util/JPropPathSplitter.java b/properties/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/javaprop/util/JPropPathSplitter.java
index 549a82c6..6d00c5e4 100644
--- a/properties/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/javaprop/util/JPropPathSplitter.java
+++ b/properties/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/javaprop/util/JPropPathSplitter.java
@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ public static JPropPathSplitter create(JavaPropsSchema schema)
         }
         return new FullSplitter(sep, schema.parseSimpleIndexes(),
                 indexMarker,
-                pathOnlySplitter(schema));
+                pathOnlySplitter(schema),
+                schema.prefix());
     }
 
     private static JPropPathSplitter pathOnlySplitter(JavaPropsSchema schema)
@@ -262,14 +263,21 @@ public static class FullSplitter extends JPropPathSplitter
         // small but important optimization for cases where index markers are absent
         protected final int _indexFirstChar;
         protected final JPropPathSplitter _simpleSplitter;
-        
+        protected final String _prefix;
+
         public FullSplitter(String pathSeparator, boolean useSimpleIndex,
-                Markers indexMarker, JPropPathSplitter fallbackSplitter)
+                Markers indexMarker, JPropPathSplitter fallbackSplitter,
+                String prefix)
         {
             super(useSimpleIndex);
             String startMarker = indexMarker.getStart();
             _indexFirstChar = startMarker.charAt(0);
             _simpleSplitter = fallbackSplitter;
+            if (prefix == null || prefix.isEmpty()) {
+                _prefix = null;
+            } else {
+                _prefix = prefix + pathSeparator;
+            }
             _indexMatch = Pattern.compile(String.format
                     ("(%s)|(%s(\\d{1,9})%s)",
                             Pattern.quote(pathSeparator),
@@ -281,6 +289,13 @@ public FullSplitter(String pathSeparator, boolean useSimpleIndex,
         public JPropNode splitAndAdd(JPropNode parent,
                 String key, String value)
         {
+            if (_prefix != null) {
+                if (!key.startsWith(_prefix)) {
+                    return null;
+                }
+                key = key.substring(_prefix.length());
+            }
+
             if (key.indexOf(_indexFirstChar) < 0) { // no index start marker
                 return _simpleSplitter.splitAndAdd(parent, key, value);
             }
diff --git a/properties/src/test/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/javaprop/PrefixTest.java b/properties/src/test/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/javaprop/PrefixTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d2b957d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/properties/src/test/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/javaprop/PrefixTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+package com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.javaprop;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Properties;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+
+public class PrefixTest extends ModuleTestBase
+{
+    private final JavaPropsMapper MAPPER = mapperForProps();
+
+    public void testPrefixParsing() throws Exception {
+        final String INPUT = "org.o1.firstName=Bob\n"
+                +"org.o1.lastName=Palmer\n"
+                +"org.o2.firstName=Alice\n"
+                +"org.o2.lastName=Black\n"
+                +"junk=AQIDBA==\n";
+        FiveMinuteUser result1 = _mapFrom(MAPPER.reader(JavaPropsSchema.emptySchema().withPrefix("org.o1")), INPUT, FiveMinuteUser.class, false);
+        assertEquals("Bob", result1.firstName);
+        assertEquals("Palmer", result1.lastName);
+        FiveMinuteUser result2 = _mapFrom(MAPPER.reader(JavaPropsSchema.emptySchema().withPrefix("org.o2")), INPUT, FiveMinuteUser.class, false);
+        assertEquals("Alice", result2.firstName);
+        assertEquals("Black", result2.lastName);
+    }
+
+    public void testPrefixGeneration() throws Exception
+    {
+        FiveMinuteUser input = new FiveMinuteUser("Bob", "Palmer", true, Gender.MALE,
+                new byte[] { 1, 2, 3, 4 });
+        String output = MAPPER.writer(JavaPropsSchema.emptySchema().withPrefix("org.o1")).writeValueAsString(input);
+        assertEquals("org.o1.firstName=Bob\n"
+                +"org.o1.lastName=Palmer\n"
+                +"org.o1.gender=MALE\n"
+                +"org.o1.verified=true\n"
+                +"org.o1.userImage=AQIDBA==\n"
+                ,output);
+        Properties props = MAPPER.writeValueAsProperties(input, JavaPropsSchema.emptySchema().withPrefix("org.o1"));
+        assertEquals(5, props.size());
+        assertEquals("true", props.get("org.o1.verified"));
+        assertEquals("MALE", props.get("org.o1.gender"));
+    }
+}