Spring Data JPA programmatically enable auditing

Question

How can I do the same as: <jpa:auditing auditor-aware-ref="yourAuditorAwarebean" /> programmatically in a @Configuration class?
Is the spring xml configuration mandatory to do this?

reference: http://docs.spring.io/spring-data/jpa/docs/1.4.3.RELEASE/reference/html/jpa.repositories.html#d0e2427

Answer 1

Java Config for auditing is now supported since Spring Data JPA 1.5 (link to documentation)

Replace the <jpa:auditing auditor-aware-ref="yourAuditorAwarebean" /> with the @EnableJpaAuditing annotation on any of your configuration class.

E.g:

@Configuration
@EnableJpaAuditing
class Config {

  @Bean
  public AuditorAware<AuditableUser> yourAuditorAwarebean() {
    return new YourAuditorAwareImpl();
  }
}