Preface

This manual describes the installation and administrative functions that need to be performed for Oracle Application Server Personalization (OracleAS Personalization). See the release notes for platform-specific details and any late-breaking information.

Note: This manual and the Javadoc for this product have been updated for release 10g (9.0.4) (formerly referred to as release 2 (9.0.4)). The user's guide, programmer's guide, and online help have not been updated, except for corrections to the product name and the titles of associated documentation; these manuals are current for release 2 (9.0.2) and 10g (9.0.4).

Intended Audience

This manual is intended for anyone planning to install and run Oracle Application Server Personalization -- either a database administrator or a system administrator.

Documentation Accessibility

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Accessibility of Code Examples in Documentation

JAWS, a Windows screen reader, may not always correctly read the code examples in this document. The conventions for writing code require that closing braces should appear on an otherwise empty line; however, JAWS may not always read a line of text that consists solely of a bracket or brace.

Structure

This manual contains the following chapters:

• Chapter 1: Provides an overview of the changes to OracleAS Personalization since the last release.

• Chapter 2: Describes security measures and internationalization.

• Chapter 3: Presents important information about installing OracleAS Personalization.

• Chapter 4: Describes OracleAS Personalization schemas

• Chapter 5: Describes the OracleAS Personalization configuration.

• Chapter 6: Presents information about JSP tags

• Chapter 7: Describes initial data collection.

• Chapter 8: Describes how to stop and start OracleAS Personalization.

Where to Find More Information

Documentation for OracleAS Personalization at the current release consists of the following documents:

• Oracle Application Server 10g Release Notes, 10g (9.0.4), which contains a chapter for each component of Oracle Application Server. The chapter for the OracleAS Personalization component contains platform-specific information, a bug report, and informatioin about any late-breaking changes.

• Oracle Application Server Personalization User's Guide, release 10g (9.0.4).

• Oracle Application Server Personalization Administrator's Guide, release 10g (9.0.4) (this document).

• Oracle Application Server Personalization Programmer's Guide, release 10g (9.0.4). A programmer's manual for programming the recommendation engines in real time and for obtaining bulk recommendations.

• The API classes and methods are also described in Javadoc (Oracle Application Server Personalization API Reference), updated for the current release.

Related Manuals

OracleAS Personalization documentation is a component of the Oracle Application Server 10g (9.0.4) Documentation Library. See especially:

• Oracle Application Server 10g Concepts

• Oracle Application Server 10g Administrator's Guide

• Oracle Application Server 10g Installation Guide (the appropriate version for your operating system).

Documentation Formats

Documentation for OracleAS Personalization is provided in PDF and HTML formats.

To view the PDF files, you will need

• Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0 or later, which you can download from http://www.adobe.com.

To view the HTML files, you will need

• Netscape 4.x or later, or

• Internet Explorer 4.x or later

Online Help

The OracleAS Personalization Administrative UI includes extensive online help that can be summoned from a list of contents and from Help buttons.

Conventions

In this manual, Windows refers to the Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, and the Windows XP operating systems.

The SQL interface to Oracle9i is referred to as SQL. This interface is the Oracle9i implementation of the SQL standard ANSI X3.135-1992, ISO 9075:1992, commonly referred to as the ANSI/ISO SQL standard or SQL92. In examples, an implied carriage return occurs at the end of each line, unless otherwise noted. You must press the Return key at the end of a line of input.

The table below shows the conventions followed in this manual and their meanings:

Convention	Meaning
.  .  .	Vertical ellipsis points in an example mean that information not directly related to the example has been omitted.
. . .	Horizontal ellipsis points in statements or commands mean that parts of the statement or command not directly related to the example have been omitted.
boldface	Commands, menu names, menu items, names of dialogs.
italics	Argument names and placeholders in command formats.
< >	Angle brackets enclose user-supplied names.
[ ]	Brackets enclose optional clauses from which you can choose one or none.
% user input system output	In interactive examples, user input is shown in bold typewriter, and system output is shown in regular typewriter.