I have implemented a version of the solution I suggested above and checked it in to the Remoting HEAD and remoting_2_x branches. 1. There are a couple of changes. First, the listener interface, org.jboss.remoting.socketfactory.SocketCreationListener, is | public interface SocketCreationListener | { | /** | * Called when a socket has been created. | * | * @param socket socket that has been created | * @param source SocketFactory or ServerSocket that created the socket | * @throws IOException | */ | void socketCreated(Socket socket, Object source) throws IOException; | } | and there are two distinct configuration keys for incorporating listeners into socket factories and server sockets: org.jboss.Remoting.SOCKET_CREATION_CLIENT_LISTENER (with value "socketCreationClientListener") and org.jboss.Remoting.SOCKET_CREATION_SERVER_LISTENER (with value "socketCreationServerListener") The reason for distinguishing these is that the same configuration Map can get passed to both a server and a client. For example, it could be passed to a Connector and then later to a Client used by the Connector to push callbacks. Finally, to support configuration by InvokerLocator or xml, the value of the listener parameter can be the name of a class that implements SocketCreationListener and has a default constructor. 2. The solution works for the following transports: bisocket, sslbisocket, https, multiplex, sslmultiplex, rmi, sslrmi, socket, and sslsocket. It does not work for the http transport and for the server side of the servlet transport. The reason it doesn't work for http is that HttpURLConnection does not expose its socket factory (though HttpsURLConnection does). It should be possible to write a custom http protocol handler for this purpose, but I won't unless is there is a specific request. And invocations with the servlet transport go through a servlet container, which is outside the scope of Remoting. 3. The implementation is based on the classes: CreationListenerSocketFactory, CreationListenerServerSocketFactory, and CreationListenerServerSocket in the package org.jboss.remoting.socketfactory. CreationListenerSocketFactory wraps the SocketFactory that would otherwise be used, and calls the listener whenever a socket is created. CreationListenerServerSocketFactory wraps the ServerSocketFactory that would otherwise be used, and whenever a ServerSocket is created, it wraps that ServerSocket in a CreationListenerServerSocket, which calls the listener whenever it creates a socket. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4002613#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...