I have a simple flow definition file with couple of view-states. I wanted to add a global-transitions section for exception pages and as soon as I add that element, I am getting a weird error.

Code:
         <global-transitions>
		<transition on-exception="java.lang.Exception" to="searchHome"/>
	</global-transitions>
Code:
E com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper service SRVE0068E: Uncaught exception created in one of the service methods of the servlet dispatcher in application search_ear. Exception created : org.springframework.web.util.NestedServletException: Request processing failed; nested exception is org.springframework.webflow.definition.registry.FlowDefinitionConstructionException: An exception occurred constructing the flow 'search-flow'
	at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:894)
	at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:778)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:718)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:831)
	at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:1663)
	at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.handleRequest(ServletWrapper.java:939)
	at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.handleRequest(ServletWrapper.java:502)
	at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapperImpl.handleRequest(ServletWrapperImpl.java:179)
	at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebApp.handleRequest(WebApp.java:3935)
	at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebGroup.handleRequest(WebGroup.java:276)
	at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.WebContainer.handleRequest(WebContainer.java:931)
	at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.WSWebContainer.handleRequest(WSWebContainer.java:1583)
	at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.channel.WCChannelLink.ready(WCChannelLink.java:186)
	at com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpInboundLink.handleDiscrimination(HttpInboundLink.java:452)
	at com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpInboundLink.handleNewRequest(HttpInboundLink.java:511)
	at com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpInboundLink.processRequest(HttpInboundLink.java:305)
	at com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpInboundLink.ready(HttpInboundLink.java:276)
	at com.ibm.ws.tcp.channel.impl.NewConnectionInitialReadCallback.sendToDiscriminators(NewConnectionInitialReadCallback.java:214)
	at com.ibm.ws.tcp.channel.impl.NewConnectionInitialReadCallback.complete(NewConnectionInitialReadCallback.java:113)
	at com.ibm.ws.tcp.channel.impl.AioReadCompletionListener.futureCompleted(AioReadCompletionListener.java:165)
	at com.ibm.io.async.AbstractAsyncFuture.invokeCallback(AbstractAsyncFuture.java:217)
	at com.ibm.io.async.AsyncChannelFuture.fireCompletionActions(AsyncChannelFuture.java:161)
	at com.ibm.io.async.AsyncFuture.completed(AsyncFuture.java:138)
	at com.ibm.io.async.ResultHandler.complete(ResultHandler.java:204)
	at com.ibm.io.async.ResultHandler.runEventProcessingLoop(ResultHandler.java:775)
	at com.ibm.io.async.ResultHandler$2.run(ResultHandler.java:905)
	at com.ibm.ws.util.ThreadPool$Worker.run(ThreadPool.java:1604)
Caused by: org.springframework.webflow.definition.registry.FlowDefinitionConstructionException: An exception occurred constructing the flow 'search-flow'
	at org.springframework.webflow.engine.builder.DefaultFlowHolder.assembleFlow(DefaultFlowHolder.java:111)
	at org.springframework.webflow.engine.builder.DefaultFlowHolder.getFlowDefinition(DefaultFlowHolder.java:84)
	at org.springframework.webflow.definition.registry.FlowDefinitionRegistryImpl.getFlowDefinition(FlowDefinitionRegistryImpl.java:61)
	at org.springframework.webflow.executor.FlowExecutorImpl.launchExecution(FlowExecutorImpl.java:138)
	at org.springframework.webflow.mvc.servlet.FlowHandlerAdapter.handle(FlowHandlerAdapter.java:193)
	at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:900)
	at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:827)
	at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:882)
	... 26 more
Caused by: org.springframework.webflow.engine.builder.FlowBuilderException: Unable to get the model for this flow
	at org.springframework.webflow.engine.builder.model.FlowModelFlowBuilder.doInit(FlowModelFlowBuilder.java:149)
	at org.springframework.webflow.engine.builder.support.AbstractFlowBuilder.init(AbstractFlowBuilder.java:46)
	at org.springframework.webflow.engine.builder.FlowAssembler.assembleFlow(FlowAssembler.java:90)
	at org.springframework.webflow.engine.builder.DefaultFlowHolder.assembleFlow(DefaultFlowHolder.java:109)
	... 33 more
Caused by: org.springframework.webflow.engine.model.builder.FlowModelBuilderException: Could not parse the XML flow definition document at ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/flows/search-flow.xml]
	at org.springframework.webflow.engine.model.builder.xml.XmlFlowModelBuilder.init(XmlFlowModelBuilder.java:121)
	at org.springframework.webflow.engine.model.builder.DefaultFlowModelHolder.assembleFlowModel(DefaultFlowModelHolder.java:87)
	at org.springframework.webflow.engine.model.builder.DefaultFlowModelHolder.getFlowModel(DefaultFlowModelHolder.java:61)
	at org.springframework.webflow.engine.builder.model.FlowModelFlowBuilder.doInit(FlowModelFlowBuilder.java:146)
	... 36 more
If I take the global-transitions element out, flow works perfectly.

I am not sure if I am missing any required library or may be I have something wrong with the code here. I am using webflow 2.3.1 and mvc3.1