How to redirect from a ManagedBean for when the request sent is an Ajax request?
Yes, just send a redirect instead of a (default) forward as outcome. The <navigation-case>-less JSF 2.0 way would be appending ?faces-redirect=true to the outcome string in the action method.
E.g.
public String login() { // ... return "home?faces-redirect=true";}
Here is another technique you might find useful. This is when you invoke method via AJAX from a Primefaces attribute that does not implement navigation. For example, I have a p:tree object with a method selected by the nodeSelectionListener.
In that method, you can invoke redirection like this:
String url = (something)FacesContext fc = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();ExternalContext ec = fc.getExternalContext();try { ec.redirect(url);} catch (IOException ex) { Logger.getLogger(Navigation.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);}Hope you find this useful.