Chapter "10.4.3. The EventMetadata interface" mentions fireAsyncEvent method ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: CDI-557 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-557 Project: CDI Specification Issues Issue Type: Bug Reporter: Tomas Remes Assignee: Antoine Sabot-Durand Priority: Minor Fix For: 2.0-EDR2 http://docs.jboss.org/cdi/spec/2.0.EDR1/cdi-spec.html#event_metadata In paragraph for isAsync method there is: {quote} isAsync() returns true if the event was fired with fireAsync() or fireAsyncEvent() methods otherwise returns false. {quote} AFAIK There is no such method.