Sitemesh with e-commerce 5.0

Question

Hi,
I am trying to use a decorator framework (Sitemesh) and it does not seem to work properly (or as intended) with SAP e-commerce 5 application. The reason I assume is that because the e-coomerce application uses sturts framework which does a forward to resultant jsp pages. Now sitemesh can work with forward or request and looks for patterns in the URI (eg *.jsp) and then decorates the page but with e-commerce application I can get it to decorate jsp page which get served as a request but not forward from a ".do".
I have the following filter in my web.xml.
    <filter>
     <filter-name>sitemesh</filter-name>
          <filter-class>com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.filter.PageFilter</filter-class>
</filter>   
<filter-mapping>
         <filter-name>sitemesh</filter-name>
          <url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern>
          <dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
          <dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
          <dispatcher>INCLUDE</dispatcher>
          <dispatcher>ERROR</dispatcher>
</filter-mapping> 
Additional information:- I tried this with Tomcat 6 with Struts2 and everything works fine there. My e-commerce application runs on SAP J2EE 7.0.
Has some one out there tried this and had any success.
Points will be rewarded and thanks in advance for your help.

Answer 1

Hello Martin,
The E-commerce 5.0 guide for ERP, says that the minimum version supported is 4.6C with the specific patch level version. We had issues initially with the TREX 7.0 installation on 64 bit windows ( lot of modifications have to be done manually here).
But now TREX 7.0 is working fine and i can see the replication happeing from R/3 4.6C. We are configuring the webshops and doing all the XCM settings currently so, would be able to tell in a days time, if  it works for us or not.(with 4.6C).
Thanks,
Dipender Singh