Equivalent of bindonnewform in annotated form controller

[Sprang]

As SimpleFormController is deprecated since Spring 3.0, can someone point me in the right direction to achieve the equivalent of "bindonnewform = true" using annotations?

I want to pass in parameters to the form and have those automatically bound to my command object without manually having to do the binding myself.

Thanks

[Sprang]

I did this by doing the below

    @RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET, params = {"isAmend=true", "!isSubmit"})
    public ModelAndView amendSearch(@ModelAttribute("form") SearchForm searchForm, BindingResult result){
        return new ModelAndView("searchForm");
    }