Sitemesh

http://www.opensymphony.com/sitemesh/install.html

SiteMesh - SiteMesh Installation and Configuration

Once SiteMesh has been downloaded (or built) , configuration is simple.

• Setup a web-app as usual (or skip all this by using the pre-configured sitemesh-blank.war ).
• Copy sitemesh-2.4.1.jar into [web-app]/WEB-INF/lib .
• Create the file [web-app]/WEB-INF/decorators.xml that contains the following:

  <decorators>
</decorators>

• (Optional) Create the file [web-app]/WEB-INF/sitemesh.xml that contains the following:

  <sitemesh>
  
      <property name="decorators-file" value="/WEB-INF/decorators.xml" />
  
      <excludes file="${decorators-file}" />
  
  
  
      <page-parsers>
  
          <parser content-type="text/html"
  
              class="com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.parser.HTMLPageParser" />
  
          <parser content-type="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"
  
              class="com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.parser.HTMLPageParser" />
  
      </page-parsers>
  
  
  
      <decorator-mappers>
  
          <mapper class="com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.mapper.ConfigDecoratorMapper">
  
              <param name="config" value="${decorators-file}" />
  
          </mapper>
  
      </decorator-mappers>
  
  </sitemesh>
  
  

• Add the following to [web-app]/WEB-INF/web.xml within the <web-app> tag:

  <filter>
  
      <filter-name>sitemesh
  </filter-name>
  
      <filter-class>com.opensymphony.sitemesh.webapp.SiteMeshFilter
  </filter-class>
  
  </filter>
  
  
  
  <filter-mapping>
  
      <filter-name>sitemesh</filter-name>
  
      <url-pattern>/*
  </url-pattern>
  
  </filter-mapping>