Ok, I guess I've found what I've been looking for:

<T> T getCurrentRevision(Class<T> revisionEntityClass, boolean persist)

mentioned in:

http://www.warski.org/blog/2012/07/generational-caching-and-envers/

But that means I have to create/implement a revision entity before I can access the revision? Or can I simply use:

DefaultRevisionEntity

as mentioned in the docs?:

http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/4.1/devguide/en-US/html/ch15.html#envers-revisionlog

So after I persist() my entites via EntityManager, I call the above method with getCurrentRevision(DefaultRevisionEntity.class, false) and I can

get the created revisionId from the returned object?

What about the RevisionListener. If it gets invoked, does the revision entity passed to it already contain the current revision or will it be set later by Envers?

This isn't quite clear in the docs.