Konfiguracja Freemarkera w klasach - winny kontekst?

Cześć,
Mam prosty projekt, gdzie korzystam z freemarkera ale tym razem konfiguruję wszystko za pomocą klas, odchodząc od .xmla. Natrafilem jednak na problem, otóż kiedy plik widoku wygląda tak:

<#import "spring.ftl" as spring />
<#--<@spring.bind "user"/>-->
<@spring.showErrors '*', 'errors' />

dostaję:

FreeMarker template error:
The following has evaluated to null or missing:
==> status [in template "spring.ftl" at line 331, column 12]

Kiedy usunę komentarz:

<#import "spring.ftl" as spring />
<@spring.bind "user"/>
<@spring.showErrors '*', 'errors' />

dostaję:
SEVERE: Error executing FreeMarker template
FreeMarker template error:

Java method "org.springframework.web.servlet.support.RequestContext.getBindStatus(String)" threw an exception when invoked on org.springframework.web.servlet.support.RequestContext object "org.springframework.web.servlet.support.RequestContext@6ebca4c0"; see cause exception in the Java stack trace.

Klasa konfiguracyjna:

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Properties;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration;
import org.springframework.web.context.WebApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.DefaultServletHandlerConfigurer;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.EnableWebMvc;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.WebMvcConfigurerAdapter;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.view.freemarker.FreeMarkerConfigurer;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.view.freemarker.FreeMarkerViewResolver;

import freemarker.template.TemplateException;
import freemarker.template.utility.XmlEscape;

@Configuration
@EnableWebMvc
@ComponentScan({ "info.noteme" })
@ContextConfiguration(classes = { WebConfig.class })
public class WebConfig extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter {

	@Bean
	public FreeMarkerViewResolver freemarkerViewResolver() {
		FreeMarkerViewResolver resolver = new FreeMarkerViewResolver();
		resolver.setOrder(1);
		resolver.setCache(false);
		resolver.setPrefix("");
		resolver.setSuffix(".ftl");
		return resolver;
	}

	@Autowired
	private XmlEscape fmXmlEscape;

	@Bean
	public XmlEscape fmXmlEscape() {
		return new XmlEscape();
	}

	@Bean
	public FreeMarkerConfigurer freemarkerConfig(WebApplicationContext applicationContext) throws IOException, TemplateException {
		FreeMarkerConfigurer config = new FreeMarkerConfigurer();
		Map<String, Object> variables = new HashMap<String, Object>();
		Properties property = new Properties();
		
		property.setProperty("default_encoding", "UTF-8");
		variables.put("xml_escape", fmXmlEscape);
		config.setServletContext(applicationContext.getServletContext());
		config.setFreemarkerVariables(variables);
		config.setTemplateLoaderPath("/WEB-INF/views/ftl");
		config.setFreemarkerSettings(property);
		return config;
	}
	
	@Override
	public void configureDefaultServletHandling(DefaultServletHandlerConfigurer configurer) {
		configurer.enable();
	}

}

Ktoś kojarzy co tutaj może nie grać?

edit: naprawione, zabrakło @ModelAttribute w definicji kontrolera, który wywoływał widok