Test Execution Listener

Hi,
I'd like to create a module with following functionality: when user executes JUnit test in NetBeans project my module would perform some action like notifying an external system (test execution starts/ends with result).

I've noticed that for Maven projects the JUnit test is executed like this:

cd E:\commons; "JAVA_HOME=C:\\jdk1.8" cmd /c "\"\"E:\\NetBeans\\java\\maven\\bin\\mvn.bat\" -Dtest=commons.DateUtilsTest -Dmaven.ext.class.path=\"E:\\NetBeans\\java\\maven-nblib\\netbeans-eventspy.jar\" surefire:test\""

And it looks like that when Maven is not used in project, the JUnit test execution is performed differently.

Does it mean there's not a common layer that would allow me to listen for the events related to JUnit test execution? 

If there's not, is there a way how to listen for such event in case of Maven projects to start with?

I've found some stuff in SPI for Ant builds: AntLogger+AntEvent, is there something like that for Maven?

Thank you,
Jan