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Oracle9iAS Personalization Programming

Oracle9iAS Personalization provides two Java application program interfaces (APIs):

• Recommendation Engine API (REAPI)

• Recommendation Engine Batch API (RE Batch API)

REAPI enables a Web application written in Java to collect and preprocess data used to build OP models and to request recommendations. The recommendations are returned in real time. REAPI is described in Part I of this manual.

RE Batch API enables a web application written in Java to request Oracle9iAS Personalization-style recommendations in bulk mode. The recommendations are written to table. RE Batch API does not return results in real time. REAPI Batch is described in Part II of this manual.

OP API Structure

The two OP APIs have the same components:

• Supporting classes, used to set constraints for the mining operations

• The proxy classes, used to obtain recommendations

Executing OP Programs

Before you can execute a program using either OP API, you must deploy and build an OP package, as described in the Oracle9iAS Personalization User's Guide.

Javadoc for the OP APIs

Detailed descriptions of the OP APIs are not included in this manual. The API calls are documented by Javadoc; see the OP section of the Oracle9i Application Server Documentation Library.