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OracleAS Personalization Programming

Oracle Application Server Personalization (OracleAS 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 OracleAS Personalization 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 OracleAS 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.

1.1 OracleAS Personalization API Structure

The two OracleAS Personalization APIs have the same components:

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

• The proxy classes, used to obtain recommendations

1.2 Executing OracleAS Personalization Programs

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

1.3 Javadoc for the OracleAS Personalization APIs

Detailed descriptions of the OracleAS Personalization APIs are not included in this manual. The API calls are documented by Javadoc; see the Oracle Application Server Personalization API Reference.