Submit using a link spring MVC-3

I am trying to load a form using a  url.  But somehow i am getting this error

org.springframework.web.servlet.PageNotFound - Request method 'GET' not supported

here is the relevant jsp code
<c:forEach items="${ContactSearchResults}"  var="res">
             <c:url var="editUrl" value="/edit.html">  
                     <c:param name="id" value="${res.id}" />               
              </c:url>           
  <tr>
        <td ><a name="edit" href='<c:out value="${editUrl}"/>' onclick="edit2('<c:out value="${res.id}"/>')">${res.firstname}&nbsp;</a></td>
                    <td ><nobr>${res.lastname}</nobr>&nbsp;</td>


here is  controller method - I am not even printing the first system.out which means I am not finding the controller

@RequestMapping(value ="/edit", params="edit",  method = RequestMethod.GET)
      public ModelAndView edit(@RequestParam("id") String recId){
            System.out.println("i m here-555");
                                            Contact con2 = conService.load(recId);
            
            ModelAndView mv = new ModelAndView();
                                           mv.setViewName("contactForm");
            mv.addObject("command", con2);
            return mv;
      }


what am I doing wrong  that I am getting this error
org.springframework.web.servlet.PageNotFound - Request method 'GET' not supported

If I use a submit button instead of a URL, it works fine (below is the submit button code that works)
<td ><input type="submit" name="editc" value="edit" onclick="edit('<c:out value="${res.id}"/>')"/></td>