[ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/TEIID-2432?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin... ] Steven Hawkins commented on TEIID-2432: --------------------------------------- reference https://issues.jboss.org/browse/TEIID-2105 and the release note text is "VDB.Status now has four states - LOADING, ACTIVE, FAILED, REMOVED. To check for validity use the isValid method, rather than checking for the VALID state. FAILED deployments will still be accessible via the admin getVDB methods." removed should not be seen by the client, so that just leaves loading/active/failed. You start as loading. You transition to active after all metadata has been loaded. This means the vdb is complete and querable, but that you may get exceptions (isValid may be false since a source may be down/missing). You transition to failed if there is a non-recoverable exception during loading (typically a metadata validation issue). -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira