I've actually had this exact same dilemma in Seam. I want to know when everything is ready. So it really depends on how you define after (or started) If you want to know when CDI is done starting up and when application-scoped beans are available, that's the AfterDeploymentValidation event. However, I also believe that this sounds too ambiguous. You have to know that deployment validation is the last phase to know that the CDI beans are ready. Then there is the question of "when is the module deployed?" (module meaning web archive, for instance). It amazes me that there is no definitive event in Java EE for this. I've hacked around this in Seam by registering a Servlet with a very low priority and fire an event in the init() method. https://github.com/seam/servlet/blob/master/impl/src/main/java/org/jboss/... I consider that a design requirement for EE 7. -Dan On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 16:09, Mark Struberg <struberg(a)yahoo.de&gt; wrote: -- Dan Allen Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat | Author of Seam in Action Registered Linux User #231597 http://mojavelinux.com http://mojavelinux.com/seaminaction http://www.google.com/profiles/dan.j.allen