Hackathon changes on 07/19/2014

Add function  getPropertiesValueOrDefault() in the GUIproperties.java file,
Rework and fix function getPropertiesValueAsList() in the GUIproperties.java file,
Unit test GUIproperties.java and GUIHierarchyConcatenationProperties.java file.
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