Creating Your Own Panels

In IzPack, all of the actual work of installing an application is done in panels. The IzPack framework is primarily there to support supports the operation of the panels and to manage manages the navigation through the installation process. This enables a user to decide which operations are carried out The operations to executed during an installation and the order in which they are carried out, simply is specified by listing the appropriate panels in the desired order.

As far as extending the functionality of IzPack is concerned, the The result of this design is that new functionality can be integrated into IzPack, by adding new panels to the framework and then listing them in the install spec. 

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