To redirect to the login page and prevent null pointer exception from the view phase i did a filter to the web.xml like mentioned there:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/myfaces-users/200507.mbox/raw/% [EMAIL PROTECTED] It works fine - but some issue is still there. If i login and than invalidate the session manually or let time pass that the session becomes invalid, i get redirected to the login page. Now - if i login in the session timeout again at that page - it does what it should. But if i wait again the time the session takes to be invalid - the first login try fails, debugged the filter and its doing correctly the chain in this case ( so the redirect to the login page again does not happen from the filter ). But the navigation handler still takes me to the login page and my session is still not valid, although the credentials are correct - any hits? kind regards

