Wiring portlets for communication

Portlet wires are used to direct the information flow between portlets that communicate using JSR 286 Portlet events or the WebSphere® Portal Cooperative portlets API. Portlet wiring refers to connecting two portlets using the portal server’s wiring tool for the purpose of sending and receiving a portlet event or a cooperative portlet property. Portlets are wired for only a single event (or property) and both portlets must give this event (or property) the same name although the associated global variable names can be different. In other words, if two portlets are going to send and receive two events (or properties), they need two wires connecting them, one for each event (or property). Without completing the wiring step, data is not transmitted.