Getting a bean with spring:eval

[zakhrim]

Hi everybody,
I'm not able to get a bean with the spring:eval tag.
According to https://jira.springsource.org/browse/SPR-7312, I wrote

<spring:eval expression="@securityChecks" var="securityChecks" scope="page" />

and placed in the app context the bean

<beans:bean class="it.cmc.security.SecurityChecks" scope="singleton" id="securityChecks" />

However when I execute my page (a web flow to be precise) I get the following error:

org.springframework.expression.spel.SpelParseException: EL1043E:(pos 49): Unexpected token.  Expected 'rparen())' but was 'bean_ref(@)'

What am I doing wrong?

A second question: is there a way to get the bean by class instead by name?

Many Thanks,
Stefano

[zakhrim]

D'oh!
It was a typo of mine in the page.

Sorry for having bothered you.

Stefano