10. A computer readable medium being of non-transitory tangible media containing executable program instructions executed by a processor, comprising: a namespace and storage management application, executing on a computer associated with a management console, the namespace and storage management application initiating performance of commands directed to managed objects including facilitating configuration and management of pathnames in a logical namespace, and configured to spawn a graphical user interface thread for use by a GUI toolkit, the GUI toolkit configured to produce reusable GUI components that allow a user to interface with the application on a computer console to manage various said pathnames exported by heterogeneous namespace services and protocol implementations within the logical namespace, and to input commands as to selected objects on one or more associated servers, said GUI toolkit supporting reusable templates that facilitate reuse of the GUI components within one of the management application and other applications, said templates having optimized operational flow arrangements.
10. A computer readable medium being of non-transitory tangible media containing executable program instructions executed by a processor, comprising: a namespace and storage management application, executing on a computer associated with a management console, the namespace and storage management application initiating performance of commands directed to managed objects including facilitating configuration and management of pathnames in a logical namespace, and configured to spawn a graphical user interface thread for use by a GUI toolkit, the GUI toolkit configured to produce reusable GUI components that allow a user to interface with the application on a computer console to manage various said pathnames exported by heterogeneous namespace services and protocol implementations within the logical namespace, and to input commands as to selected objects on one or more associated servers, said GUI toolkit supporting reusable templates that facilitate reuse of the GUI components within one of the management application and other applications, said templates having optimized operational flow arrangements. 11. The computer readable medium being of non-transitory tangible media as defined in claim 10 further comprising computer executable instructions including one or more program instructions for displaying selected managed objects on a display panel and in a view configuration format chosen from a view configuration portion of a view panel.