title: Spring MVC 3.1 RedirectAttributes is not working
body: <p>I'm trying to implement RedirectAttributes feature in Spring MVC 3.1-Release</p>
  
  <p>I'm sending simple form to Post URL and would like to see the the value I'm sending in redirect:</p>
  
  <p>my Controller looks like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>@Controller
  public class DefaultController {
  
      @RequestMapping(value="/index.html", method=RequestMethod.GET)
      public ModelAndView indexView(){
          ModelAndView mv = new ModelAndView("index");
      return mv;
      }
  
      @RequestMapping(value="/greetings.action", method=RequestMethod.POST)
      public ModelAndView startTask(@RequestParam("firstName") String firstName,RedirectAttributes redirectAttributes){
          redirectAttributes.addFlashAttribute("redirectAttributes.firstName", firstName);
          ModelAndView mv = new ModelAndView(new RedirectView("success.html"));
          return mv;
      }
  
      @RequestMapping(value="/success.html", method=RequestMethod.GET)
      public ModelAndView successView(){
          ModelAndView mv = new ModelAndView("success");
          return mv;
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Now my Servlet XML looks like this:</p>
  
  <pre class="lang-xml prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
  xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
  xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
  xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
  xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
  xsi:schemaLocation="
  http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
  http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd
  http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
  http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.1.xsd
  http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
  http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.1.xsd
  http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop
  http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.1.xsd"&gt;
  &lt;mvc:annotation-driven/&gt;
  &lt;context:component-scan base-package="com.vanilla.flashscope.controllers" /&gt;
  
      &lt;bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver"&gt;
          &lt;property name="prefix"&gt;
              &lt;value&gt;/&lt;/value&gt;
          &lt;/property&gt;
          &lt;property name="suffix"&gt;
              &lt;value&gt;.jsp&lt;/value&gt;
          &lt;/property&gt;
      &lt;/bean&gt;
  &lt;/beans&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My problem is that in success.html view redirectAttributes is empty.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;body&gt;
  &lt;h5&gt;${redirectAttributes.firstName} &lt;/h5&gt; 
  &lt;/body&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Prints nothing.</p>