Many thanks jamestastic, I've got it resolved for now 
Below are the lines needed to to be addeded to the web configuration file to have them working together:
Code:
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" ...line1
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context ...line2
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-2.5.xsd"> ...line3
<context:annotation-config/> ...line4
<context:component-scan base-package="myPackage"/> ...line5
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping"/> ...line6
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter"/> ...line7
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.SimpleControllerHandlerAdapter"/> ...line8
</beans>
I was too careless to not to add line 8 in my application.
Many thanks