local observation

I would like to register event listeners on Jackrabbit to create a log file. However, it seems that I need to make a remote connection to get a session. This is a bit inconvenient, because I need to have another process running. Moreover, it is not suitable for a real audit log (one process might be down or JR might make changes before I have a session). So I would find it really helpful if I could register event listeners that run in the same process as JR and get started automatically when JR (or the respective workspace) starts. Probably, this would need a config setting for registration or so.