How do you get Google Map working with custom WMS layers with Mapbuilder / OpenLayer ?

I came across an interesting problem when working on an interesting feature for our web mapping application. Let me first give you a very brief background about our application. Our web mapping setup uses Mapbuilder/OpenLayers as the client side Javascript API, A custom WMS/WFS server, geowebcache as our caching intermediary and PostGIS/PostGRES as our geospatial database. Every web mapping software will have a set of layers that are rendered. Every web mapping software will also have a basemap which defines the projection and bounding box for the model.

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