title: No flow definition found. Spring web flow
body: <p>I am new to Spring webflow and now I am trying the example in Spring recipes book and I know this is a basic question. </p>
  
  <p>I am getting the error as follows,</p>
  
  <pre><code>    org.springframework.webflow.definition.registry.NoSuchFlowDefinitionException: No flow definition '${flowExecutionUrl}&amp;_eventId=next' found
      at org.springframework.webflow.definition.registry.FlowDefinitionRegistryImpl.getFlowDefinitionHolder(FlowDefinitionRegistryImpl.java:126)
      at org.springframework.webflow.definition.registry.FlowDefinitionRegistryImpl.getFlowDefinition(FlowDefinitionRegistryImpl.java:61)
      at org.springframework.webflow.executor.FlowExecutorImpl.launchExecution(FlowExecutorImpl.java:138)
      at org.springframework.webflow.mvc.servlet.FlowHandlerAdapter.handle(FlowHandlerAdapter.java:193)....  
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Shown below is my configurations,</p>
  
  <pre><code>    &lt;bean name="flowController" class="org.springframework.webflow.mvc.servlet.FlowController"&gt;
          &lt;property name="flowExecutor" ref="flowExecutor"&gt;&lt;/property&gt;
      &lt;/bean&gt;
  
      &lt;webflow:flow-executor id="flowExecutor" /&gt;
  
      &lt;webflow:flow-registry id="flowRegistry" &gt;
          &lt;webflow:flow-location path="/WEB-INF/flows/welcome/welcome.xml"&gt;&lt;/webflow:flow-location&gt;
      &lt;/webflow:flow-registry&gt;  
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>/WEB-INF/flows/welcome/welcome.xml,</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;view-state id="welcome"&gt;
      &lt;transition on="next" to="introduction" /&gt;
      &lt;transition on="skip" to="menu" /&gt;
  &lt;/view-state&gt;
  
  &lt;view-state id="introduction"&gt;
      &lt;on-render&gt;
          &lt;evaluate expression="libraryService.getHolidays()" result="requestScope.holidays" /&gt;
      &lt;/on-render&gt;
      &lt;transition on="next" to="menu" /&gt;
  &lt;/view-state&gt;
  
  &lt;view-state id="menu"&gt;&lt;/view-state&gt;  
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In welcome.jsp,</p>
  
  <pre><code>    &lt;a href="${flowExecutionUrl}&amp;_eventId=next"&gt;Next&lt;/a&gt;
      &lt;a href="${flowExecutionUrl}&amp;_eventId=skip"&gt;Skip&lt;/a&gt;  
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Please let me know what is going wrong. I am using 2.0.9 Release.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance,
  SD</p>