Environment:
Spring 3.1.3.RELEASE
Spring webflow 2.3.0.RELEASE

I wanted to start using type conversions in my application. I followed the steps below for configuring type conversion formatting for spring MVC and SWF.

http://static.springsource.org/sprin...ype-conversion

I followed the steps and added into the servlet context
Code:
 <!-- Enables controllers mapped with @RequestMapping annotations, formatting annotations @NumberFormat
    @DateTimeFormat, and JSR 303 style validation --> 
   <mvc:annotation-driven conversion-service="applicationConversionService1" />
Code:
<webflow:flow-builder-services id="flowBuilderServices" conversion-service="defaultConversionService" view-factory-creator="mvcViewFactoryCreator" development="true"/>
Code:
<bean id="defaultConversionService" class="org.springframework.binding.convert.service.DefaultConversionService"> 
     	<constructor-arg ref="applicationConversionService1"/> 
   </bean>
I created a new class to register my own formatter for use in both Spring MVC and in Spring Web Flow.

Code:
@Component(value = "applicationConversionService1")
public class ApplicationConversionServiceFactoryBean extends
		FormattingConversionServiceFactoryBean {
	
	@Override
	protected void installFormatters(FormatterRegistry registry) {
	  // Register the default date formatter provided by Spring
	  registry.addFormatter(new DateFormatter("dd/MM/yyyy"));
	} 
	
}
Now when i deploy to the server, the context is initialised correctly and classpath scanning registers the bean.

In my form model that binds, i have annotated a date field with the new dateformat annotation.

Code:
@DateTimeFormat(pattern="dd/MM/yyyy")
	private Date revisedTermExpiryDate = new Date();
i know its the same format as the default but initially i want the type conversion to work before changing.

So the class DateFormatter has lenient as false, so i expected when submitting the form input field, that a parse exception would occur if i entered for example the value '24/15/2012', but did not.

Am i missing something here?