Added ValidatingRepositoryEventListener as a default bean so it's on all the time.

spring-data-rest-webmvc/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/rest/webmvc/RepositoryRestConfiguration.java

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import org.springframework.context.annotation.ImportResource;
 import org.springframework.core.convert.ConversionService;
 import org.springframework.core.convert.support.DefaultConversionService;
 import org.springframework.data.rest.repository.JpaRepositoryMetadata;
+import org.springframework.data.rest.repository.context.ValidatingRepositoryEventListener;
 import org.springframework.http.MediaType;
 import org.springframework.http.converter.HttpMessageConverter;
 import org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter;
@@ -33,6 +34,8 @@ public class RepositoryRestConfiguration {
   ConversionService defaultConversionService = new DefaultConversionService();
   @Autowired(required = false)
   List<HttpMessageConverter<?>> httpMessageConverters = new ArrayList<HttpMessageConverter<?>>();
+  @Autowired(required = false)
+  ValidatingRepositoryEventListener validatingRepositoryEventListener;
 
   @Bean ConversionService conversionService() {
     if (null != customConversionService) {
@@ -60,6 +63,13 @@ public class RepositoryRestConfiguration {
     return jpaRepositoryMetadata;
   }
 
+  @Bean ValidatingRepositoryEventListener validatingRepositoryEventListener() {
+    if (null == validatingRepositoryEventListener) {
+      validatingRepositoryEventListener = new ValidatingRepositoryEventListener();
+    }
+    return validatingRepositoryEventListener;
+  }
+
   @Bean PersistenceAnnotationBeanPostProcessor persistenceAnnotationBeanPostProcessor() {
     return new PersistenceAnnotationBeanPostProcessor();
   }

spring-data-rest-webmvc/src/test/resources/META-INF/spring-data-rest/repositories-export.xml

@@ -11,14 +11,4 @@
 
   <bean id="beforeSavePersonValidator" class="org.springframework.data.rest.test.webmvc.PersonValidator"/>
 
-  <bean class="org.springframework.data.rest.repository.context.ValidatingRepositoryEventListener"/>
-
-  <!--
-  <bean class="org.springframework.data.rest.test.webmvc.PersonLoader">
-    <property name="personRepository" ref="personRepository"/>
-    <property name="profileRepository" ref="profileRepository"/>
-    <property name="addressRepository" ref="addressRepository"/>
-  </bean>
-  -->
-
 </beans>