session expires and exception is caught by the general exception class

[maristea1]

i have the following problem.
when session has timed out and i click a button i get an exception that the user object is null.this happens i suppose because my session has expires.the problem is that the exception is not caught by the exception class javax.faces.application.ViewExpiredException in my pages.xml but by the general exception.how can i overcome this problem.when the session times out or expires i want the user to be redirected to the login page.

thank you in advance

[suckerd]

Hi you could catch the view expired exception beforehand:
e.g.

<exception class="javax.faces.application.ViewExpiredException" log="false" logLevel="debug"> 
        <redirect view-id="/pages/generalError.xhtml"> 
            <message severity="WARN">Session timeout</message> 
        </redirect> 
    </exception>

CU Mike