Change AnnotatedHandlerRepositoryEventListener into a BeanPostProcessor which works better all around and processes every bean, looking for event handlers.

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

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
 import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
 import org.springframework.context.annotation.ImportResource;
 import org.springframework.data.rest.repository.UriToDomainObjectUriResolver;
+import org.springframework.data.rest.repository.context.AnnotatedHandlerBeanPostProcessor;
 import org.springframework.data.rest.repository.context.ValidatingRepositoryEventListener;
 import org.springframework.data.rest.repository.jpa.JpaRepositoryExporter;
 import org.springframework.data.rest.webmvc.json.JsonSchemaController;
@@ -57,6 +58,16 @@ public class RepositoryRestMvcConfiguration {
     return new PersistenceAnnotationBeanPostProcessor();
   }
 
+  /**
+   * {@link org.springframework.beans.factory.config.BeanPostProcessor} to turn beans annotated as {@link
+   * org.springframework.data.rest.repository.annotation.RepositoryEventHandler}s.
+   *
+   * @return
+   */
+  @Bean public AnnotatedHandlerBeanPostProcessor annotatedHandlerBeanPostProcessor() {
+    return new AnnotatedHandlerBeanPostProcessor();
+  }
+
   /**
    * Use the pre-defined {@link JpaRepositoryExporter} defined by the user or create a default one.
    *

spring-data-rest-webmvc/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/rest/test/ApplicationRestConfig.java

@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ public class ApplicationRestConfig {
 
   @Bean public Module customModule() {
     return new Module() {
-      private final SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS");
+      private final SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ");
 
       @Override public String getModuleName() {
         return "custom";

spring-data-rest-webmvc/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/rest/test/webmvc/AfterSavePersonHandler.java

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+package org.springframework.data.rest.test.webmvc;
+
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+import org.springframework.data.rest.repository.annotation.HandleAfterSave;
+import org.springframework.data.rest.repository.annotation.RepositoryEventHandler;
+import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
+
+/**
+ * @author Jon Brisbin
+ */
+@Component
+@RepositoryEventHandler(Person.class)
+public class AfterSavePersonHandler {
+
+  private final static Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(AfterSavePersonHandler.class);
+
+  @HandleAfterSave
+  public void handleAfterSave(Person person) {
+    LOG.info("saved person: " + person);
+  }
+
+}

spring-data-rest-webmvc/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/rest/test/webmvc/PersonRepository.java

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ import org.springframework.data.rest.repository.annotation.RestResource;
  *
  * @author Jon Brisbin
  */
-@RestResource(path = "people", rel = "peeps")
+@RestResource(path = "people", rel = "people")
 public interface PersonRepository extends PagingAndSortingRepository<Person, Long> {
 
   @Override

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

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">
 
   <bean id="baseUri" class="java.net.URI">
-    <constructor-arg value="http://localhost:3000/api"/>
+    <constructor-arg value="http://localhost:8080/data"/>
   </bean>
 
   <bean id="config" class="org.springframework.data.rest.webmvc.RepositoryRestConfiguration"