MvcViewFactoryCreator - useSpringBinding?

[gemini929]

I would like to better understand the "useSpringBinding" option in the MvcViewFactoryCreator...

From the API:

Sets whether to use data binding with Spring's BeanWrapper should be enabled. Set to 'true' to enable. 'false', disabled, is the default. With this enabled, the same binding system used by Spring MVC 2.x is also used in a Web Flow environment.

If I don't explicitly set this, its clear that I won't be using the BeanWrapper. What is being used? Why was "false" the default?

[gemini929]

Are we talking about defaulting to the Spring 3 type conversion and formatting system vs the older PropertyEditor based system?