Use the Personalization APIs
Personalization provides open APIs that enable the Personalization run-time environment and Rational Application Developer to access user and content data in customer data stores.
The Javadoc for Personalization APIs is available from the PORTAL_HOME/doc/Javadoc directory.
- Resource interface
The interface com.ibm.websphere.personalization.resources.Resource enables mapping the user model, content model, or other resource model to data in the customer data store. Get an overview of the methods defined by this interface that implement.
- APIs for multivalue properties
Use the com.ibm.websphere.personalization.resources.IMVResource interface to enable mapping multi-value properties. Use the com.ibm.websphere.personalization.resources.IMultiValueUtils interface for retrieving multi-value properties when those resources are in a database.
- General tips
View some general tips related to resource classloading when using the Personalization API.
- Personalization jar files that use public API
Learn about the .jar files containing public APIs documented in Personalization JavaDoc information. Unless they are included in the JavaDoc documentation, classes are not public API even if they are included in these .jar files. When we use IBM Rational Application Developer and the Portal Personalization tools, these classes are added to the project classpath automatically and no further action is necessary.