Strut tile definition and bc4j

Hi ,
I am working on a BC4j Struts based project.I was on my way to implement tile definition thru a xml file and implementing do action forwards,for ex welcome.do,viewreport.do.For doing this I had to change the controller entry in struts-config.xml from
<controller debug="3" locale="true" processorClass="oracle.jbo.html.struts11.BC4JRequestProcessor" contentType="text/html;charset=windows-1252"/>
to
<controller processorClass="org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesRequestProcessor" contentType="text/html;charset=windows-1252"/
after I did this the actions I had implemented myself with to work with tile defs,they are working fine ,but there were some other actions(as I started with a wizard created bc4j strut app) which are bc4j related have stopped working because BC4JRequestProcessor was no more
defined as the request processor....
How to solve this?How to make both strut actions and bc4j actions work inside a project...can 2 request processors be used at the same time...
can anybody help??

check this weblog entry by Steve Muench
http://radio.weblogs.com/0118231/2003/09/14.html
success
-Jan

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