diff --git a/config/alfresco/core-services-context.xml b/config/alfresco/core-services-context.xml
index c926f87837..bf29bfdcf2 100644
--- a/config/alfresco/core-services-context.xml
+++ b/config/alfresco/core-services-context.xml
@@ -1090,10 +1090,11 @@
     <!-- Replacement for Spring's multicaster, that queues up events until the application is started -->
     <bean id="applicationEventMulticaster" class="org.alfresco.repo.management.SafeApplicationEventMulticaster"/>
    
-   
-   
    <bean id="repositoryState" class="org.alfresco.repo.admin.RepositoryState" />
    
+   <!-- Alfresco Events Publisher -->
+   <bean id="eventPublisher" class="org.alfresco.repo.events.NoOpEventPublisher" />
+   
    <!-- index subsystem proxies -->
    
     <bean id="Search" class="org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.SwitchableApplicationContextFactory" parent="abstractPropertyBackedBean">
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 60818e2ef1..47c8c9c98b 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -39,6 +39,11 @@
             <artifactId>javax.mail</artifactId>
             <version>1.5.2</version>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.alfresco.services</groupId>
+            <artifactId>alfresco-events</artifactId>
+            <version>1.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.icegreen</groupId>
             <artifactId>greenmail</artifactId>
diff --git a/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/events/EventPreparator.java b/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/events/EventPreparator.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cd08adc653
--- /dev/null
+++ b/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/events/EventPreparator.java
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2005-2014 Alfresco Software Limited.
+ *
+ * This file is part of Alfresco
+ *
+ * Alfresco is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * Alfresco is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+ * along with Alfresco. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package org.alfresco.repo.events;
+
+import org.alfresco.events.types.Event;
+
+
+/**
+* Creates and prepares event information.
+*
+* The primary reason for this interface is to allow for deferred creation
+* of the Event.  If a NoOpEventPublisher is being used then the prepareEvent()
+* method will never get called.
+*
+* As of Java 8 a Lambda expression could be used as the implementation of 
+* this FunctionalInterface
+*
+* @author Gethin James
+* @since 5.0
+**/
+
+//@FunctionalInterface
+public interface EventPreparator
+{
+    public Event prepareEvent(String user, String networkId, String transactionId);
+}
diff --git a/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/events/EventPublisher.java b/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/events/EventPublisher.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e25e76344e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/events/EventPublisher.java
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2005-2014 Alfresco Software Limited.
+ *
+ * This file is part of Alfresco
+ *
+ * Alfresco is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * Alfresco is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+ * along with Alfresco. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package org.alfresco.repo.events;
+
+import org.alfresco.events.types.Event;
+
+/**
+ * EventPublisher can be used to broadcast events.
+ *
+ * @author Gethin James
+ * @since 5.0
+ */
+public interface EventPublisher
+{
+    //TODO AbstractEventsService should probably implement this interface
+    
+    /**
+     * Publish the event
+     * @param event Event
+     */
+    public void publishEvent(Event event);
+    
+    /**
+     * Publish the event using an EventPreparator
+     * @param prep EventPreparator
+     */
+    public void publishEvent(EventPreparator prep);
+    
+}
diff --git a/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/events/NoOpEventPublisher.java b/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/events/NoOpEventPublisher.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1ed70f6420
--- /dev/null
+++ b/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/events/NoOpEventPublisher.java
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2005-2014 Alfresco Software Limited.
+ *
+ * This file is part of Alfresco
+ *
+ * Alfresco is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * Alfresco is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+ * along with Alfresco. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package org.alfresco.repo.events;
+
+import org.alfresco.events.types.Event;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+/**
+ * An implementation of EventPublisher that does nothing.
+ *
+ * @author Gethin James
+ * @since 5.0
+ */
+public class NoOpEventPublisher implements EventPublisher {
+
+    private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(NoOpEventPublisher.class);
+
+    @Override
+    public void publishEvent(Event event)
+    {
+    	if (logger.isDebugEnabled())
+    	{
+            logger.debug("No event published for [" + event + "]");
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void publishEvent(EventPreparator prep)
+    {
+    	if (logger.isDebugEnabled())
+    	{
+            logger.debug("No event published with preparator.");
+        }
+    }
+	
+}
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