Validation Errors will not display

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I am having problems displaying validation errors on a JSP page. I successfully traverse my validator classes validate() method but the error messages are not displayed. I have set a default message as well as a specific message in messages.properties. I am beginning to think it may be a result of setting my form backing object to "registrationForm" instead of leaving it the default "command".

Validate code snippet:

public void validate(Object command, Errors errors) {
		RegistrationForm form = (RegistrationForm) command;
		
		LOG.debug("Registration Validator - validate()");
     
		LOG.debug("Username "+form.getUserName()+" password "+form.getPassword());
		if (form == null || form.getUserName().length() == 0 ) {     
			errors.rejectValue("userName", "required", null, "Username Required");
           }
        
		if (form == null || form.getPassword().length() == 0 ) {            
			errors.rejectValue("password", "required", null, "Password Required");
           }
	}

JSP Form:

<%@ include file="/WEB-INF/jsp/include.jsp" %>

<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='../../../css/prototype1.css'/>

<form method="post">

<table border=0 width=100% cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2>
<col align=left>
<col align=left>

    <tr>
        <td colspan='2'>
        <h4><font color="#99999">Create Login</h4>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td colspan='2'>
    </tr>
     <tr> 
        <td colspan="1">Username&#58;</td>
        <td>
            <spring&#58;bind path="registrationForm.userName">
                <input type="text" name="userName" value="<c&#58;out value="$&#123;status.value&#125;"/>" size="30">
                <span class="error"><c&#58;out value="$&#123;status.errorMessage&#125;"/></span>
            </spring&#58;bind>
	    </td>
    </tr>
    <tr> 
        <td colspan="1">Email Address&#58;</td>
        <td>
            <spring&#58;bind path="registrationForm.emailAddress">
                <input type="text" name="emailAddress" value="<c&#58;out value="$&#123;status.value&#125;"/>" size="30">
                <span class="error"><c&#58;out value="$&#123;status.errorMessage&#125;"/></span>
            </spring&#58;bind>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr> 
        <td colspan="1">Confirm Email&#58;</td>
        <td>
            <spring&#58;bind path="registrationForm.confirmEmailAddress">
                <input type="text" name="confirmEmailAddress" value="<c&#58;out value="$&#123;status.value&#125;"/>" size="30">
                <span class="error"><c&#58;out value="$&#123;status.errorMessage&#125;"/></span>
            </spring&#58;bind>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr> 
        <td colspan="1">Password&#58;</td>
        <td>
            <spring&#58;bind path="registrationForm.password">
                <input type="password" name="password" value="<c&#58;out value="$&#123;status.value&#125;"/>" size="30">
                <span class="error"><c&#58;out value="$&#123;status.errorMessage&#125;"/></span>
            </spring&#58;bind>
	    </td>
    </tr>
     <tr> 
        <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"></td> 
        <td colspan="1">
            <input type="submit" value="Submit">
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>
</form>

Messages.properties contains only:

required=This field cannot be empty

Any suggestions? would be appreicated.

[thus]

Ignore. I somehow deleted my include statement for my spring taglib.