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• Put sitemesh.jar in your container's classpath. You could put it into each webapp's WEB-INF/lib, but it looks like there's problems with that.
• Create and deploy a webapp that contains the common decorator.
• In each webapp's decorators.xml, add a "webapp" attribute to point to the webapp you deployed in Step 2.

  <decorators>
      <!-- load decorator from a different web-app deployed in the server -->
      <decorator name="main" webapp="some-other-webapp" 
          page="/decorators/main.jsp">
          <pattern>/*</pattern>
      </decorator>
  </decorators>
  

Try to do *that* with Tiles.