diff --git a/engine/components-api/src/org/apache/cloudstack/compute/ComputeGuru.java b/engine/components-api/src/org/apache/cloudstack/compute/ComputeGuru.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5dbe0c6f931
--- /dev/null
+++ b/engine/components-api/src/org/apache/cloudstack/compute/ComputeGuru.java
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.cloudstack.compute;
+
+import com.cloud.vm.VirtualMachineProfile;
+
+/**
+ * ComputeGuru understands everything about the hypervisor.
+ * 
+ */
+public interface ComputeGuru {
+    String getVersion();
+    String getHypervisor();
+    void start(VirtualMachineProfile vm);
+    void stop(VirtualMachineProfile vm);
+
+
+}
diff --git a/engine/pom.xml b/engine/pom.xml
index ba8b738f57f..f35c14bbeb3 100644
--- a/engine/pom.xml
+++ b/engine/pom.xml
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!--
   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
   or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
@@ -15,8 +16,7 @@
   KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
   specific language governing permissions and limitations
   under the License.
--->
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+--><project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <artifactId>cloud-engine</artifactId>
   <name>Apache CloudStack Cloud Engine</name>
@@ -40,5 +40,6 @@
     <module>components-api</module>
     <module>schema</module>
     <module>network</module>
+    <module>service</module>
   </modules>
-</project>
+</project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/engine/service/pom.xml b/engine/service/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b0dd6c2c5c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/engine/service/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<project xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
+    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+  <parent>
+    <groupId>org.apache.cloudstack</groupId>
+    <artifactId>cloud-engine</artifactId>
+    <version>4.1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  </parent>
+  <groupId>org.apache.cloudstack</groupId>
+  <artifactId>cloud-engine-service</artifactId>
+  <version>4.1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <packaging>war</packaging>
+  <name>service Maven Webapp</name>
+  <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
+  <dependencies>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>junit</groupId>
+      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+      <version>3.8.1</version>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+  <build>
+    <finalName>service</finalName>
+  </build>
+</project>
diff --git a/engine/service/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml b/engine/service/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..04563ea82dc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/engine/service/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC
+ "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
+ "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd" >
+
+<web-app>
+  <display-name>Archetype Created Web Application</display-name>
+</web-app>
diff --git a/engine/service/src/main/webapp/index.jsp b/engine/service/src/main/webapp/index.jsp
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6f07b72e67e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/engine/service/src/main/webapp/index.jsp
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+<html>
+<body>
+<h2>Hello World!</h2>
+</body>
+</html>