Hello,
are the JSF pages (portlets) cached in any way? I have a jsf portlet on a page and when I open it, I see that a call to a request-scoped bean is made only once. When I refresh it, no calls are made. This affects the page behaviour: that bean checks if a user is logged in or not. So, if you open the page with this portlet, then login, the page won't "notice" - you need to delete the session cookie first to make it work.
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Cheers,
Adam