Spring Data REST with Spring MVC: Adding RepositoryRestMvcConfiguration to existing DispatcherServlet - spring

Question

I have an existing Spring MVC Application with a DispatcherServlet and an XML based configuration.
Now I would like to integrate Spring Data REST but I dont know how to do this in a clean way. I added
<context:component-scan>...</context:component-scan>
so my RestControllers are found but I fail in adding a RepositoryRestMvcConfiguration config. I tried the annotation driven approach which doesnt work
#Configuration
public class RestConfiguration extends RepositoryRestMvcConfiguration {
...
}
and the
<bean class="com.mypackage.rest.RestConfiguration" />
approach is not working either.
I also tried the follwing in the web.xml
<servlet>
<servlet-name>myservlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>contextClass</param-name>
<param-value>org.springframework.web.context.support.AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>com.mypackage.rest.RestConfiguration</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
Strange thing is, a method annotated with #PostConstruct is called, but non of the configure* methods.
In the docs for Spring Data REST is a chapter where it is explained how to add a Spring Data REST to a Spring MVC application in code. It also says
The equivalent of the above in a standard web.xml will also work identically to this configuration if you are still in a servlet 2.5 environment.
How do you do this?

Answer 1

Fortunately, in Section 11.2 it is explained. Would have been nice to have a reference in Section 2.5 that points to Section 11.2 :-/
In Java, this would look like:
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Import;
import org.springframework.data.rest.webmvc.RepositoryRestMvcConfiguration;
#Configuration
#Import(RepositoryRestMvConfiguration.class)
public class MyApplicationConfiguration {
…
}
In XML this would look like:
<bean class="org.springframework.data.rest.webmvc.config.RepositoryRestMvcConfiguration"/>