removing "skyway" from a scaffolded project

Hi

I have scaffolded a project but essentially I did it for speed (read laziness) as I did not want to create a lot of the DAO/web etc from scratch.

The main use of the application was to provide REST.
However I am now facing an issue that, unless I remove the redirects from web.xml for skyway, all of my pages display the default skyway screen before redirecting and getting the rest of the content.

Ideally I want to remove the following from web.xml, but as this is autogenerated, certain operations put them back in again

<filter>
        <description>generated-sitemesh-filter</description>
        <filter-name>Sitemesh Filter</filter-name>
        <filter-class>
            com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.filter.PageFilter
        </filter-class>
    </filter>

    <filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>Sitemesh Filter</filter-name>
        <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
    </filter-mapping>

I even tried changing the pattern to something else but if that is the case, it will add it back in as a new mapping with the /* pattern