This section provides a high level overview of the Rules connectivity framework
The workflow system server uses TCP/IP to communicate with the Rules Listener. The Rules Listener is implemented in Java™ as a multi-threaded process. It hosts the rules vendor JAR file that implements the rules vendor functionality. The rules vendor must provide a JAR file that contains an implementation of the IFNRule listener interface in order for to be invoked from the RCF. The IFNRule listener Java interface is defined by IBM® FileNet® P8. The Rules Listener looks for the rules vendor JAR file and if it is present, loads it and enable the rules functionality. The following figure provides a graphical high level view of the rules integration.
Note that for any related samples and information, you must have selected to install the Rules Connectivity Framework when you installed the workflow system client.