LAYOUT Manager

Hi,

Over the next 2 days I will be migrating to our new layoutmanager.

It includes functionality for themes, panels, and of course layouts.

I'll also be finishing up the layoutmanager admin tool.

Tiles-defs.xml, will no longer be used. And layout actions, as well as
themes, will be in layout-config.xml  file.

All actions in struts-config.xml that only had to do with tiles will be
moved to layout-config.xml.

So UI actions (front-end stuff) will be in new config file and "do" actions
will remain in struts config.

I'm am using *.up mapping for layoutservlet. So for example files.up will
navigate to files pages and include files panels.

After this release both panels and themes will be updated to allow surfers
the ability to create their own
customizable themes and panels. The natural follow on to the this would be a
library of user defined skins, for everyone  to use.

The reason tiles is being removed is because of the customization features
the new manager will make available to surfers.

If anyone has a better mapping than *.up please let me know.

Also the menuitems will be located in one central file and be part of admin
tool.

Oh, I forgot, in release following this, hopefully, users will be able to
move the panels on the page to a different position, or different page for
that matter.


Paul