diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index d62903e..602717c 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <groupId>org.masteroftime</groupId>
     <artifactId>PyPluginLoader</artifactId>
-    <version>0.3.5</version>
+    <version>0.3.6</version>
     <name>PyPluginLoader</name>
     <properties>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
     <repositories>
 	  <repository>
 	    <id>bukkit-repo</id>
-	    <url>http://repo.bukkit.org/content/groups/public</url>
+	    <url>https://hub.spigotmc.org/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots</url>
 	  </repository>
     </repositories>
     <build>
@@ -99,12 +99,12 @@
         <dependency>
           <groupId>org.python</groupId>
           <artifactId>jython-standalone</artifactId>
-          <version>2.5.3</version>
+          <version>2.7.0</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
           <groupId>org.bukkit</groupId>
           <artifactId>bukkit</artifactId>
-          <version>1.3.2-R3.0</version>
+          <version>LATEST</version>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md
index d88eb64..849c624 100644
--- a/readme.md
+++ b/readme.md
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Running
 0. Ensure you are using a bukkit build that uses
    https://github.com/Bukkit/Bukkit/pull/335 - otherwise, only some of your
    plugins will work.
-1. Put PyPluginLoader-0.2.jar in your bukkit/plugins/ dir
+1. Put PyPluginLoader-0.3.6.jar in your bukkit/plugins/ dir
 2. Put jython.jar in your bukkit/lib/ dir
 3. [Re-]Start bukkit
 
@@ -70,6 +70,9 @@ your plugin.py:
             print "enabled!"
         def onDisable():
             print "disabled!"
+        def onLoaded():
+            print "load complete!"
+
 
 Decorator API
 -------------
@@ -94,7 +97,11 @@ your main.py:
     @hook.disable
     def ondisable():
         print "main.py disabled"
-    
+
+    @hook.load_complete
+    def onloadcomplete():
+        print "main.py loading complete"
+
     @hook.event("player.PlayerJoinEvent", "normal")
     def playerjoin(event):
         event.getPlayer().sendMessage("Hello from python")
@@ -202,6 +209,30 @@ Summary of fields:
 - "website" - mainly for people reading the code
 
 
+Plugin resources
+----------------
+
+Some plugins may contain resource files. Unlike the code these files maybe text, images
+or other binary files. When this is the case you need some way to access resources packed
+within a plugin. Plugin object accessible from python interpreter globals has a special
+method to obtain resource files data from within the plugin.
+
+    def init_plugin():
+        resource_data = pyplugin.getPyResource(resource_filename)
+        with resource_data:
+            for record in resource_data:
+                ...
+
+getPyResource() method of the pyplugin exposed object take a resource file path local to
+plugin container (zip archive or folder) and returns python file object available for
+reading. That file object needs to be closed after. Context manager may be used for this
+purpose.
+Resource files may only be accessed before plugin loaded will close the plugin file
+(in case of zip for example); best place for this is a load_complete hook handler
+which is called right after pyplugin object instantiated and before plugin file will be
+closed by plugin loader.
+
+
 Decorator api
 -------------
 
@@ -346,6 +377,21 @@ examples:
     def onDisable():
         print "disabled!"
 
+Initialization
+**************
+
+Function decorated with hook.load_complete is called when your
+plugin is first loaded and immediately after plugin object is instantiated.
+this functionality is intended to provide you a point when a once per server run
+plugin initialization routine should be called.
+
+examples:
+
+    @hook.load_complete
+    def onLoadComplete():
+        doInit(pyplugin)
+        print "initialization complete!"
+
 Accessing the plugin object
 ***************************
 
@@ -386,13 +432,17 @@ main.py
     @hook.disable
     def onDisable():
         print "sample plugin disabled"
+
+    @hook.load_complete
+    def onLoadComplete():
+        print "sample plugin loading complete"
     
     @hook.event("player_join", "normal")
     def onPlayerJoin(event):
         msg = "welcome from the sample plugin, %s" % event.getPlayer().getName()
         print msg
         event.getPlayer().sendMessage(msg)
-    
+
     @hook.command("samplecommand", usage="/<command>", 
                     desc="send a sample message")
     def onSampleCommand(sender, command, label, args):
@@ -437,7 +487,10 @@ plugin.py
         
         def onDisable(self):
             print "sample plugin disabled"
-        
+
+        def onLoaded(self):
+            print "sample plugin load complete"
+
         def onCommand(self, sender, command, label, args):
             msg = "sample plugin command"
             print msg
diff --git a/src/main/java/net/lahwran/bukkit/jython/PluginImporter.java b/src/main/java/net/lahwran/bukkit/jython/PluginImporter.java
index 2ce173e..9d739b6 100644
--- a/src/main/java/net/lahwran/bukkit/jython/PluginImporter.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/lahwran/bukkit/jython/PluginImporter.java
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 import org.python.core.PyObject;
 import org.python.core.PyString;
 import org.python.core.PyTuple;
-import org.python.modules.imp;
+import org.python.modules._imp;
 
 /**
  * Unfinished importer to separate plugins into their own namespaces, possibly also import
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ private PyObject retrieveModule(String name) {
             PyString pypath = new PyString(pluginpath.getAbsolutePath());
             PyObject[] elements = new PyObject[] {pypath};
             PyList paths = new PyList(elements);
-            PyObject result = imp.find_module(subname, paths);
+            PyObject result = _imp.find_module(subname, paths);
             if (result != null) {
                 PyTuple info = (PyTuple) result;
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/net/lahwran/bukkit/jython/PythonHooks.java b/src/main/java/net/lahwran/bukkit/jython/PythonHooks.java
index 9324b98..87c492e 100644
--- a/src/main/java/net/lahwran/bukkit/jython/PythonHooks.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/lahwran/bukkit/jython/PythonHooks.java
@@ -52,6 +52,11 @@ public class PythonHooks {
      */
     PyFunction onDisable;
 
+    /**
+     * Function to call when plugin is initialized
+     */
+    PyFunction onLoaded;
+
     /**
      * List of handlers to register
      */
@@ -247,6 +252,21 @@ public PyFunction disable(PyFunction func) {
         return func;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Python decorator. functions decorated with this are called on load complete
+     * <pre>
+     * @hook.load_complete
+     * def loaded():
+     *     print "load complete!"
+     * </pre>
+     * @param func function to decorate
+     * @return decorated function
+     */
+    public PyFunction load_complete(PyFunction func) {
+        onLoaded = func;
+        return func;
+    }
+
     /**
      * Python decorator. functions decorated with this are called as event handlers
      * @param type event type
diff --git a/src/main/java/net/lahwran/bukkit/jython/PythonPlugin.java b/src/main/java/net/lahwran/bukkit/jython/PythonPlugin.java
index 5d80ef1..da6b4fe 100644
--- a/src/main/java/net/lahwran/bukkit/jython/PythonPlugin.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/lahwran/bukkit/jython/PythonPlugin.java
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@
 import org.bukkit.plugin.PluginLogger;
 import org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin;
 import org.python.util.PythonInterpreter;
+import org.python.core.util.FileUtil;
+import org.python.core.PyFile;
+import org.python.core.PyString;
 
 import com.avaje.ebean.EbeanServer;
 import com.avaje.ebeaninternal.api.SpiEbeanServer;
@@ -274,6 +277,11 @@ public PluginCommand getCommand(String name) {
      */
     public void onLoad() {}
 
+    public void onLoaded() {
+        if (hooks.onLoaded != null)
+            hooks.onLoaded.__call__();
+    }
+
     public ChunkGenerator getDefaultWorldGenerator(String worldName, String id) {
         getServer().getLogger().severe("Plugin " + getDescription().getFullName() + " does not contain any generators that may be used in the default world!");
         return null;
@@ -335,6 +343,19 @@ public InputStream getResource(String filename) {
         }
     }
 
+    public PyFile getPyResource(PyString filename) {
+        if(filename == null) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Filename cannot be null");
+        }
+
+        try {
+            return FileUtil.wrap(dataFile.getStream(filename.asString()));
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            //just return null and do not print stack trace as JavaPlugin's getResource does not print it either
+            return null;
+        }
+    }
+
     @Override
     public void saveResource(String resourcePath, boolean replace) {
         if (resourcePath == null || resourcePath.equals("")) {
diff --git a/src/main/java/net/lahwran/bukkit/jython/PythonPluginLoader.java b/src/main/java/net/lahwran/bukkit/jython/PythonPluginLoader.java
index e78a837..a8461da 100644
--- a/src/main/java/net/lahwran/bukkit/jython/PythonPluginLoader.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/lahwran/bukkit/jython/PythonPluginLoader.java
@@ -171,10 +171,7 @@ private Plugin loadPlugin(File file, boolean ignoreSoftDependencies, PluginDataF
         ArrayList<String> depend;
 
         try {
-            depend = (ArrayList<String>) description.getDepend();
-            if (depend == null) {
-                depend = new ArrayList<String>();
-            }
+            depend = new ArrayList<String>(description.getDepend());
         } catch (ClassCastException ex) {
             throw new InvalidPluginException(ex);
         }
@@ -288,6 +285,8 @@ private Plugin loadPlugin(File file, boolean ignoreSoftDependencies, PluginDataF
             
             result.initialize(this, server, description, dataFolder, file);
             result.setDataFile(data);
+
+            result.onLoaded();
             
         } catch (Throwable t) {
             if (data.shouldAddPathEntry() && pythonpath.__contains__(filepath)) {
diff --git a/src/main/resources/plugin.yml b/src/main/resources/plugin.yml
index 4b476db..670c173 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/plugin.yml
+++ b/src/main/resources/plugin.yml
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 name: PythonLoader
 main: com.master.bukkit.python.PythonLoader
-version: 0.3.4
+version: 0.3.6