Squashed commit of the following:

commit 2054551bfb01a0f4ca2e138b9d724835462d45cd
Merge: 765c2da 616a853
Author: Valerio Virgillito <valerio@motorola.com>
Date:   Wed Apr 18 13:48:21 2012 -0700

    Merge branch 'refs/heads/master' into integration

commit 765c2da8e1aa03550caf42b2bd5f367555ad2843
Author: Valerio Virgillito <valerio@motorola.com>
Date:   Tue Apr 17 15:29:41 2012 -0700

    updating the picasa carousel

    Signed-off-by: Valerio Virgillito <valerio@motorola.com>

commit 9484f1c82b81e27edf2dc0a1bcc1fa3b12077406
Merge: d27f2df cacb4a2
Author: Valerio Virgillito <valerio@motorola.com>
Date:   Tue Apr 17 15:03:50 2012 -0700

    Merge branch 'refs/heads/master' into integration

commit d27f2df4d846064444263d7832d213535962abe7
Author: Valerio Virgillito <valerio@motorola.com>
Date:   Wed Apr 11 10:39:36 2012 -0700

    integrating new picasa carousel component

    Signed-off-by: Valerio Virgillito <valerio@motorola.com>

commit 6f98384c9ecbc8abe55ccfe1fc25a0c7ce22c493
Author: Valerio Virgillito <valerio@motorola.com>
Date:   Tue Apr 10 14:33:00 2012 -0700

    fixed the text area case issue

    Text area was renamed from TextArea to Textarea

    Signed-off-by: Valerio Virgillito <valerio@motorola.com>

commit 1e83e26652266136802bc7af930379c1ecd631a6
Author: Valerio Virgillito <valerio@motorola.com>
Date:   Mon Apr 9 22:10:45 2012 -0700

    integrating montage v0.8 into ninja.

    Signed-off-by: Valerio Virgillito <valerio@motorola.com>

Signed-off-by: Valerio Virgillito <valerio@motorola.com>

72 files changed, 6980 insertions, 2737 deletions

diff --git a/js/panels/components-panel.reel/components-panel.js b/js/panels/components-panel.reel/components-panel.js
index cfacd461..5d3c0a73 100755
--- a/js/panels/components-panel.reel/components-panel.js
+++ b/js/panels/components-panel.reel/components-panel.js
@@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ exports.ComponentsPanel = Montage.create(Component, {
                     break;
                 case "textarea":
                     el = NJUtils.makeNJElement("textarea", "TextArea", "component");
-                    el.elementModel.pi = "TextAreaPi";
+                    el.elementModel.pi = "TextareaPi";
                     break;
                 case "toggleButton":
                     el = NJUtils.makeNJElement("button", "Toggle Button", "component");
diff --git a/node_modules/components-data/textarea.json b/node_modules/components-data/textarea.json
index 8e780954..0dd7714e 100644
--- a/node_modules/components-data/textarea.json
+++ b/node_modules/components-data/textarea.json
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
     "module": "montage/ui/textarea.reel",
 
-    "name": "TextArea",
+    "name": "Textarea",
 
     "properties": [
 
diff --git a/node_modules/montage/core/deserializer.js b/node_modules/montage/core/deserializer.js
index 7e812235..b8ed5618 100755
--- a/node_modules/montage/core/deserializer.js
+++ b/node_modules/montage/core/deserializer.js
@@ -98,6 +98,26 @@ var Deserializer = Montage.create(Montage, /** @lends module:montage/core/deseri
     }},
 
     /**
+     Initializes the deserializer with a string
+     @param {String|Object} serialization A string or JSON-style object
+     describing the serialized objects.
+     @param {Function} require The module loader for the containing package.
+     @param {String} origin Usually a file name.
+     */
+    init: {
+        value: function (serialization, require, origin) {
+            if (typeof serialization !== "string") {
+                serialization = JSON.stringify(serialization);
+            }
+            this._reset();
+            this._serializationString = serialization;
+            this._require = require;
+            this._origin = origin;
+            return this;
+        }
+    },
+
+    /**
      Initializes the deserializer with a string of serialized objects.
      @function
      @param {String} string A string of serialized objects.
@@ -122,6 +142,14 @@ var Deserializer = Montage.create(Montage, /** @lends module:montage/core/deseri
         return this;
     }},
 
+    initWithObjectAndRequire: {value: function(string, require, origin) {
+        this._reset();
+        this._serializationString = JSON.stringify(object);
+        this._require = require;
+        this._origin = origin;
+        return this;
+    }},
+
     /**
      Initializes the deserializer object with a serialization string and the require object used to load the modules containing the object's prototypes.
      @function
@@ -168,8 +196,37 @@ var Deserializer = Montage.create(Montage, /** @lends module:montage/core/deseri
 
         return objectsArray;
     }},
+
+    chainDeserializer: {
+        value: function(deserializer) {
+            var chainedSerializations = this._chainedSerializations,
+                optimizedIds, chainedOptimizedIds;
+
+            if (!chainedSerializations) {
+                this._chainedSerializations = chainedSerializations = [];
+            }
+
+            chainedSerializations.push({
+                string: deserializer._serializationString,