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Property wiring tool to be integrated with admin portlets
The wiring tool may is invoked as part of editing a page. It provides the capability
to view sharable properties on each portlet instance and create wirings between
them. It will also provide the capability to view the existing set of wiring rules for
the current page. In order to obtain information about the sharable properties, the
tool will invoke listProperties on the property broker. In order to obtain information
about the existing rules, it will invoke getMatchRules on the
PropertyBrokerServiceInternal interface. It will allow the user to pairwise choose
compatible properties on two portlet instances and wire them up, or to specify
that type-