The Personalization interface
The Portal Personalization user interface consists of three portlets: the Personalization Navigator, Personalization Editor, and the Personalized List.
Personalization rules
WebSphere Portal Personalization sends published rules across HTTP to a servlet which resides on each personalization server. This servlet can receive publishing data or initiate new publishing jobs. When a user begins a publishing job from the personalization authoring environment, the local servlet is provided with the set of information necessary to complete the job. The local servlet contacts the destination endpoint servlet (which could be the same servlet) and sends its data to it. The destination servlet reports success or failure.
The Web Content resource collection
The Web Content resource collection is installed and configured out of the box. This predefined collection allows you to write rules that select lists of content from IBM Web Content Manager. Rules specify which Web content to show in a Portal Personalization component in Web Content Manager.
The Portal User resource collection
Portal Personalization comes with a Portal User resource collection. This collection uses public APIs provided by IBM WebSphere Portal to access user information.