Neither BindingResult nor plain target object for bean name 'searchBean' available...

[testing123]

I am getting the following stacktrace:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Neither BindingResult nor plain target object for bean name 'searchBean' available as request attribute
        at org.springframework.web.servlet.support.BindStatus.<init>(BindStatus.java:137)
        at org.springframework.web.servlet.tags.form.AbstractDataBoundFormElementTag.getBindStatus(AbstractDataBoundFormElementTag.java:179)
        at org.springframework.web.servlet.tags.form.AbstractHtmlElementTag.resolveCssClass(AbstractHtmlElementTag.java:502)

The annoying part is that I copied most of the stuff from another flow that is working fine. Its probably an obvious copy/paste error or something I forgot to change but I have been looking at this for longer than I would like to admit and can't see whats wrong....I need another set of eyes...

heres the search-flow.xml:

	<start-state idref="search"/>

	<view-state id="search" view="searchpage">
		<render-actions>			
			<action bean="formAction" method="setupForm"/>
		</render-actions>
		<transition on="search" to="searchresults">
			<action bean="formAction" method="bindAndValidate"/>		
		</transition>
		<transition on="main" to="mainmenu">
			<action bean="formAction" method="bindAndValidate"/>		
		</transition>
	</view-state>

heres the bean:

public class SearchBean implements Serializable
{    
	/** Logger for this class and subclasses */    
	protected final Log logger = LogFactory.getLog(getClass());    
	private String name = "";
	
	public String getName()
	{
		return name;
	}		
	
	public void setName(String name)
	{
		this.name = name;
	}
	
	public String toString()
	{
		String retVal = "name: " + name + "\n\n";
		return retVal;
	}
}

heres the search-flow-beans.xml:

	<bean id="formAction" class="org.springframework.webflow.action.FormAction">
		<property name="formObjectClass" value="com.xactsites.producty.bus.SearchBean"/>
		<property name="formObjectName" value="searchBean"/>
		<property name="formObjectScope" value="FLOW"/>
		<property name="validator">
			<bean class="com.xactsites.producty.bus.SearchBeanValidator"/>
		</property>
	</bean>

heres the jsp:

<form:form commandName="searchBean" method="post">  
	<table bgcolor="f8f8ff" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5"> 
		<tr>
			<td>Name: </td>
			<td><form:input path="name"/></td>
		</tr>
	</table>  
	<br>  
	<spring:hasBindErrors name="searchBean">    
		<b>Please enter a name</b>  
	</spring:hasBindErrors>  
	<br>
	<br>  
	<input type="hidden" name="_flowExecutionKey" value="${flowExecutionKey}">
	<input type="submit" class="button" value="Search">
	<input type="hidden" name="_eventId" value="search">
</form:form>

This is a very simple case so I don't know why I can't figure out why the form backing object isn't found. I am puzzled.

Thanks in advance.

[testing123]

When I came in this morning (with new eyes) I saw the issue, at the bottome of my search-flow.xml I was importing the wrong xml file should have been:
<import resource="search-flow-beans.xml"/>. That makes perfect sense why the bean wasn't found because there was nothing specifying the bean in the flow....sorry for posting such a newbie issue.