I thought I might share how we are using ALFS at my company. A while back we created a BSP Extension Element for a Common Page header that is included on all of our applications. This element has functionality to set the language, theme, and other settings (sort of a poor man's portal personalization). If the user changes their theme, it is writting into an ABAP table and defaulted back into every application that uses this element.
We are now able to create our own themes with ALFS and add them to this extension quite easily. The following is screen shot of this element and a new theme created in ALFS:
https://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/weblogs/images/1918/ALF_GCS1.JPG
We simply created a maintenance view and used standard SAP Generated Table Maintenance to allow us to quickly add new themes to this drop down. In fact you just have to cut and paste the theme root from ALFS into this table maintenance.
https://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/weblogs/images/1918/ALFS_Table_Maintenance.gif
As a side note, I just love the name of this tool - ALFS. There was a TV show in America a good number of years back (1986) called ALF (Alien Life Form). It was about an alien (actually a hand puppet) that lives with an American Family. Since I was only 12 years old when this TV show was on the air, I was a fairly big fan.
As I imported Brian's code for the Service Handler, I couldn't help and modify it a little to include the fuzzy little TV star that the tool shares a name with.
https://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/weblogs/images/1918/ALF1_Fuzzy_Little_Guy.jpg
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