Hello,

Here is my situation:

I have a MultiActionController and a "handle..." method defined in it:

Code:
public ModelAndView handleNewsAdd(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException {
        News currentNews = new News(); //this is my bean
        
        ServletRequestDataBinder binder = new ServletRequestDataBinder(currentNews, "currentNews");
        binder.bind(request);

        Map model = new HashMap();
        //setting some model parameters		
        . . . . . . . 
        return new ModelAndView("newsDetailsForm", "model", model);
	}
The request is correctly processed by this handler method and resolved to some .jsp file which contains the following definition:

HTML Code:
    <form:form commandName="currentNews" name="NewsDetailsForm" ... >
    . . . . . . 
    </form:form>
But in this stage I get an error:

org.springframework.web.util.NestedServletExceptio n: Request processing failed; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalStateException: Neither BindingResult nor plain target object for bean name 'currentNews' available as request attribute

Where did I make a mistake?