Spring web flow not going to next page

[K. Tsang]

Hello all

New to Spring web flow but got the config and files set up by googling examples. Anyway I got to the point that I know the flow is started but by clicking next or back buttons, it stays on the say page.

In spring config file

    <flow:flow-executor id="flowExecutor" flow-registry="flowRegistry" />
    <flow:flow-registry id="flowRegistry" base-path="/WEB-INF/flows">
        <flow:flow-location path="/WEB-INF/flows/myflow.xml" />
    </flow:flow-registry>
    <bean class="org.springframework.webflow.mvc.servlet.FlowHandlerMapping">
        <property name="flowRegistry" ref="flowRegistry" />
    </bean>
    <bean class="org.springframework.webflow.mvc.servlet.FlowHandlerAdapter">
        <property name="flowExecutor" ref="flowExecutor" />
    </bean>

The myflow.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<flow xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/webflow"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/webflow
http://www.springframework.org/schema/webflow/spring-webflow-2.4.xsd">
    
    <view-state id="page1" view="portal/myflow/page1">
        <transition on="next" to="page2" />
    </view-state>
    
    <view-state id="page2" view="portal/myflow/page2">
        <transition on="back" to="page1" />
        <transition on="next" to="page3" />
    </view-state>

    <end-state id="page3" view="portal/myflow/page3" />
    
</flow>

The file structure is like
WEB-INF/views/portal/myflow
|_page1.jsp
|_page2.jsp
|_page3.jsp

The page1.jsp

<h1>Page 1</h1>
<!--flowExecutionUrl evaluates to "/<context-root>/portal/myflow/page1" -->
<form:form id="page1" method="post" action="${flowExecutionUrl}">
    <input id="next" name="_eventId=next" type="submit" value="Next" />
</form:form>

The page2.jsp

<h1>Page 2</h1>
<!--flowExecutionUrl evaluates to "/<context-root>/portal/myflow/page2" -->
<form:form id="page2" method="post" action="${flowExecutionUrl}">
    <input id="back" name="_eventId=back" type="submit" value="Back" />
    <input id="next" name="_eventId=next" type="submit" value="Next" />
</form:form>

The page3.jsp

<h1>Page 3</h1>

Now on page1, I click next page1 display when I expect to see page2. What am I doing wrong? Oh no spring controllers whatsoever.