since there are other ways to get to the context, I thought it was best to leave out of the interface to keep it simple.

I do not think I understand your comment about general event listener. I wanted to avoid adding any new interfaces for same purpose.

Mechanism to hook up event listener into Teiid runtime ------------------------------------------------------ Key: TEIID-2182 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/TEIID-2182 Project: Teiid Issue Type: Feature Request Components: AdminApi, Server Affects Versions: 8.1 Environment: Windows 7 64 bit Reporter: Anil Allewar Assignee: Ramesh Reddy Fix For: 8.3 It would be to useful allow the installation of custom listeners since we don't have a global vdb table that could have customizable triggers. This could cover for example custom strategies for external materialization initialization. This would also help in where an application wants to listen to when a VDB was added, made active, destroyed so that it can handle those events as required by the application. Please see the thread below for the context & details https://community.jboss.org/message/756060