Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Hello,

I have a jsf portlet and facing a small problem.
I have 3 views for my functionality. When I am on 3rd view, there is a button that takes me outside of jsf navigation to some other portal page.
I do it with this snippet:

facesContext.getExternalContext().redirect("<url to some portal page>");

Problem is, when some other navigation flow brings same user to my jsf portlet, it goes directly to 3rd view, skipping first 2 views.
To resolve this, I have following snippet in doView() of my jsf portlet. I use this conditionally of course.

FacesContext ctx = getFacesCTX(request, response);
				UIViewRoot newView = ctx
						.getApplication()
						.getViewHandler()
						.createView(ctx,
								"/initialView.jsp");
				ctx.setViewRoot(newView);

Question is can I get rid of this logic? Is there any better way of doing it?

Thanks,
bchinc