Emergency impending hard drive failure dump - lots of changes on the frontend, but they're all potentially controversial so I'm not pushing to master yet. Beginnings of show viewer. Application now run through demo menu, which allows for the links between modules to be tested.

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+/**
+ * 
+ */
+package uk.org.ury.frontend;
+
+
+/**
+ * A frontend user interface panel.
+ * 
+ * All frontend user interfaces should subclass this as their main 
+ * interface space, so that frontend panels can include each other 
+ * and panels can be embedded into application frames or applets.
+ * 
+ * @author Matt Windsor
+ *
+ */
+
+public abstract class FrontendModulePanel extends FrontendPanel
+{
+  /**
+   * 
+   */
+  
+  private static final long serialVersionUID = 5616222530691425635L;
+
+  private FrontendModule module;
+  
+  
+  /**
+   * Construct a new, blank FrontendModulePanel.
+   * 
+   * @param module  the module that the panel is viewing.
+   * 
+   * @param master   The FrontendMaster driving the frontend.
+   */
+  
+  public
+  FrontendModulePanel (FrontendModule module, FrontendMaster master)
+  { 
+    super (master);
+    this.module = module;
+  }
+  
+  
+  /**
+   * Construct a FrontendModulePanel using an XML layout manifest.
+   * 
+   * @param module  the module that the panel is viewing.
+   * 
+   * @param xmlPath  The path, relative from this source file, to the
+   *                 XML file from which this panel will read its 
+   *                 layout.
+   *                 
+   * @param master   The FrontendMaster driving the frontend.
+   */
+  
+  public
+  FrontendModulePanel (FrontendModule module, String xmlPath, 
+                       FrontendMaster master)
+  {
+    super (xmlPath, master);
+    this.module = module;
+  }
+  
+  
+  /**
+   * @return  the name of the panel module.
+   */
+  
+  public abstract String 
+  getName ();
+
+
+  /**
+   * Retrieve the module that this panel is serving as a view into.
+   * 
+   * @return  the module.
+   */
+  
+  public FrontendModule
+  getModule ()
+  {
+    return module;
+  }
+  
+  
+  /**
+   * 
+   */
+}