Listening to Run/Debug events

Hi,

How can I listen via openapi to run/debug events? What I want is to attach
some listener that will be invoked before (and after if possible) run or
debug events (if I could choose which run configuration it would be even
better!) and invoke (and wait for) an external process. Then execution/debug
should continue normally. The external process invocation will be
accompanied by some user interface indications (perhaps a tool window).

Is that possible (using Irida 3326), and if so, how?

This is very similar to what the Ant plugin (is it a plugin?) does. It lets
you choose one or more run configurations, and specify which ant targets to
run before/after them.

Regards,
Arik.