Changed the way I look for ConversionServices to add to the default set of Converters by looking in the ApplicationContext rather than playing monkey games with @Configuration and @Autowired.

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

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
     <class>org.springframework.data.rest.test.webmvc.Person</class>
     <class>org.springframework.data.rest.test.webmvc.Profile</class>
     <class>org.springframework.data.rest.test.webmvc.Address</class>
+    <class>org.springframework.data.rest.test.webmvc.UuidTest</class>
     <properties>
       <property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect"/>
       <property name="hibernate.connection.url" value="jdbc:hsqldb:mem:spring"/>

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

@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
 
     Uncomment this block to add the included UUID <-> String converters, which are not included by default.
   -->
-  <!--
   <bean class="org.springframework.context.support.ConversionServiceFactoryBean">
     <property name="converters">
       <set>
@@ -26,7 +25,6 @@
       </set>
     </property>
   </bean>
-  -->
 
   <!--
     This validator will be picked up automatically. The default configuration is to look at the bean name