Spring XML equivalent of @EnableAsync

Yes, you can use something like this

 <beans>
     <task:annotation-driven executor="myExecutor" exception-handler="exceptionHandler"/>
     <task:executor id="myExecutor" pool-size="7-42" queue-capacity="11"/>
     <bean id="asyncBean" class="com.foo.MyAsyncBean"/>
     <bean id="exceptionHandler" class="com.foo.MyAsyncUncaughtExceptionHandler"/>
 </beans>

According to the Spring documentation, this is equivalent to using @EnableAsync

Did you try using this

<task:annotation-driven />