Container managed authentication in Myfaces/JSF

[Ming Hu]

I have the following navigation case:

  <navigation-case>
   <from-outcome>nav_page_domain_op_list</from-outcome>
   <to-view-id>/page_domain_op_list</to-view-id>
  </navigation-case>

and the following security constraint:
...
      <url-pattern>/page_domain_op_list.jsf</url-pattern>
...

If I point my browser to localhost:8080/myapp/page_domain_op_list.jsf, the web app works fine and the sign-in page is popup up by the container automatically.

However I run into issues when I want to add same control on a JSF/Myfaces command link or command button. I tried to use "page_domain_op_list.jsf" or "nav_page_domain_op_list.jsf" as the action value, but neither worked.

How should I handle this kind of situation? Has anyone put any thoughts into this? I'd really appreciate your inputs.

Regards,

Ming