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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;
+  }
+  
+  
+  /**
+   * 
+   */
+}