Spring Data Rest: RepositoryEventHandler methods not invoked

I am trying to add a RepositoryEventHandler as described on Spring Data REST documentation to the REST repository shown below:

@RepositoryRestResource(collectionResourceRel = "agents", path = "/agents") public interface AgentRepository extends CrudRepository<Agent, Long> { // no implementation required; Spring Data will create a concrete Repository } 

I created an AgentEventHandler:

@Component @RepositoryEventHandler(Agent.class) public class AgentEventHandler { /** * Called before {@link Agent} is persisted * * @param agent */ @HandleBeforeSave public void handleBeforeSave(Agent agent) { System.out.println("Saving Agent " + agent.toString()); } } 

and declared it in a @Configuration component:

@Configuration public class RepositoryConfiguration { /** * Declare an instance of the {@link AgentEventHandler} * * @return */ @Bean AgentEventHandler agentEvenHandler() { return new AgentEventHandler(); } } 

When I am POSTing to the REST resource, the Entity gets persisted but the method handleBeforeSave never gets invoked. What am I missing?

I'm using: Spring Boot 1.1.5.RELEASE