diff --git a/moniker/openstack/common/rpc/common.py b/moniker/openstack/common/rpc/common.py
index 02bf3c35f..e4e10cb13 100644
--- a/moniker/openstack/common/rpc/common.py
+++ b/moniker/openstack/common/rpc/common.py
@@ -162,7 +162,9 @@ class Connection(object):
         raise NotImplementedError()
 
     def consume_in_thread_group(self, thread_group):
-        """Spawn a thread to handle incoming messages in the supplied ThreadGroup.
+        """
+        Spawn a thread to handle incoming messages in the supplied
+        ThreadGroup.
 
         Spawn a thread that will be responsible for handling all incoming
         messages for consumers that were set up on this connection.
diff --git a/moniker/openstack/common/wsgi.py b/moniker/openstack/common/wsgi.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e7610723d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/moniker/openstack/common/wsgi.py
@@ -0,0 +1,728 @@
+# vim: tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
+
+# Copyright 2011 OpenStack LLC.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    Licensed 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.
+
+"""Utility methods for working with WSGI servers."""
+
+import datetime
+import eventlet
+import eventlet.wsgi
+
+eventlet.patcher.monkey_patch(all=False, socket=True)
+
+import routes
+import routes.middleware
+import sys
+import webob.dec
+import webob.exc
+from xml.dom import minidom
+from xml.parsers import expat
+
+from moniker.openstack.common import exception
+from moniker.openstack.common.gettextutils import _
+from moniker.openstack.common import log as logging
+from moniker.openstack.common import jsonutils
+from moniker.openstack.common import service
+
+
+LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+def run_server(application, port):
+    """Run a WSGI server with the given application."""
+    sock = eventlet.listen(('0.0.0.0', port))
+    eventlet.wsgi.server(sock, application)
+
+
+class Service(service.Service):
+    """
+    Provides a Service API for wsgi servers.
+
+    This gives us the ability to launch wsgi servers with the
+    Launcher classes in service.py.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, threads=1000):
+        super(Service, self).start()
+        self.pool = eventlet.GreenPool(threads)
+
+    def start(self, application, port, host='0.0.0.0', backlog=128):
+        """Start serving this service using the provided server instance.
+
+        :returns: None
+
+        """
+        super(Service, self).start()
+        socket = eventlet.listen((host, port), backlog=backlog)
+        self.pool.spawn_n(self._run, application, socket)
+
+    def stop(self):
+        """Stop serving this API.
+
+        :returns: None
+
+        """
+        super(Service, self).stop()
+
+    def wait(self):
+        """Wait until all servers have completed running."""
+        super(Service, self).wait()
+        try:
+            self.pool.waitall()
+        except KeyboardInterrupt:
+            pass
+
+    def _run(self, application, socket):
+        """Start a WSGI server in a new green thread."""
+        logger = logging.getLogger('eventlet.wsgi.server')
+        eventlet.wsgi.server(socket, application, custom_pool=self.pool,
+                             log=logging.WritableLogger(logger))
+
+
+class Middleware(object):
+    """
+    Base WSGI middleware wrapper. These classes require an application to be
+    initialized that will be called next.  By default the middleware will
+    simply call its wrapped app, or you can override __call__ to customize its
+    behavior.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, application):
+        self.application = application
+
+    def process_request(self, req):
+        """
+        Called on each request.
+
+        If this returns None, the next application down the stack will be
+        executed. If it returns a response then that response will be returned
+        and execution will stop here.
+        """
+        return None
+
+    def process_response(self, response):
+        """Do whatever you'd like to the response."""
+        return response
+
+    @webob.dec.wsgify
+    def __call__(self, req):
+        response = self.process_request(req)
+        if response:
+            return response
+        response = req.get_response(self.application)
+        return self.process_response(response)
+
+
+class Debug(Middleware):
+    """
+    Helper class that can be inserted into any WSGI application chain
+    to get information about the request and response.
+    """
+
+    @webob.dec.wsgify
+    def __call__(self, req):
+        print ("*" * 40) + " REQUEST ENVIRON"
+        for key, value in req.environ.items():
+            print key, "=", value
+        print
+        resp = req.get_response(self.application)
+
+        print ("*" * 40) + " RESPONSE HEADERS"
+        for (key, value) in resp.headers.iteritems():
+            print key, "=", value
+        print
+
+        resp.app_iter = self.print_generator(resp.app_iter)
+
+        return resp
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def print_generator(app_iter):
+        """
+        Iterator that prints the contents of a wrapper string iterator
+        when iterated.
+        """
+        print ("*" * 40) + " BODY"
+        for part in app_iter:
+            sys.stdout.write(part)
+            sys.stdout.flush()
+            yield part
+        print
+
+
+class Router(object):
+
+    """
+    WSGI middleware that maps incoming requests to WSGI apps.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, mapper):
+        """
+        Create a router for the given routes.Mapper.
+
+        Each route in `mapper` must specify a 'controller', which is a
+        WSGI app to call.  You'll probably want to specify an 'action' as
+        well and have your controller be a wsgi.Controller, who will route
+        the request to the action method.
+
+        Examples:
+          mapper = routes.Mapper()
+          sc = ServerController()
+
+          # Explicit mapping of one route to a controller+action
+          mapper.connect(None, "/svrlist", controller=sc, action="list")
+
+          # Actions are all implicitly defined
+          mapper.resource("server", "servers", controller=sc)
+
+          # Pointing to an arbitrary WSGI app.  You can specify the
+          # {path_info:.*} parameter so the target app can be handed just that
+          # section of the URL.
+          mapper.connect(None, "/v1.0/{path_info:.*}", controller=BlogApp())
+        """
+        self.map = mapper
+        self._router = routes.middleware.RoutesMiddleware(self._dispatch,
+                                                          self.map)
+
+    @webob.dec.wsgify
+    def __call__(self, req):
+        """
+        Route the incoming request to a controller based on self.map.
+        If no match, return a 404.
+        """
+        return self._router
+
+    @staticmethod
+    @webob.dec.wsgify
+    def _dispatch(req):
+        """
+        Called by self._router after matching the incoming request to a route
+        and putting the information into req.environ.  Either returns 404
+        or the routed WSGI app's response.
+        """
+        match = req.environ['wsgiorg.routing_args'][1]
+        if not match:
+            return webob.exc.HTTPNotFound()
+        app = match['controller']
+        return app
+
+
+class Request(webob.Request):
+    """Add some Openstack API-specific logic to the base webob.Request."""
+
+    default_request_content_types = ('application/json', 'application/xml')
+    default_accept_types = ('application/json', 'application/xml')
+    default_accept_type = 'application/json'
+
+    def best_match_content_type(self, supported_content_types=None):
+        """Determine the requested response content-type.
+
+        Based on the query extension then the Accept header.
+        Defaults to default_accept_type if we don't find a preference
+
+        """
+        supported_content_types = (supported_content_types or
+                                   self.default_accept_types)
+
+        parts = self.path.rsplit('.', 1)
+        if len(parts) > 1:
+            ctype = 'application/{0}'.format(parts[1])
+            if ctype in supported_content_types:
+                return ctype
+
+        bm = self.accept.best_match(supported_content_types)
+        return bm or self.default_accept_type
+
+    def get_content_type(self, allowed_content_types=None):
+        """Determine content type of the request body.
+
+        Does not do any body introspection, only checks header
+
+        """
+        if not "Content-Type" in self.headers:
+            return None
+
+        content_type = self.content_type
+        allowed_content_types = (allowed_content_types or
+                                 self.default_request_content_types)
+
+        if content_type not in allowed_content_types:
+            raise exception.InvalidContentType(content_type=content_type)
+        return content_type
+
+
+class Resource(object):
+    """
+    WSGI app that handles (de)serialization and controller dispatch.
+
+    Reads routing information supplied by RoutesMiddleware and calls
+    the requested action method upon its deserializer, controller,
+    and serializer. Those three objects may implement any of the basic
+    controller action methods (create, update, show, index, delete)
+    along with any that may be specified in the api router. A 'default'
+    method may also be implemented to be used in place of any
+    non-implemented actions. Deserializer methods must accept a request
+    argument and return a dictionary. Controller methods must accept a
+    request argument. Additionally, they must also accept keyword
+    arguments that represent the keys returned by the Deserializer. They
+    may raise a webob.exc exception or return a dict, which will be
+    serialized by requested content type.
+    """
+    def __init__(self, controller, deserializer=None, serializer=None):
+        """
+        :param controller: object that implement methods created by routes lib
+        :param deserializer: object that supports webob request deserialization
+                             through controller-like actions
+        :param serializer: object that supports webob response serialization
+                           through controller-like actions
+        """
+        self.controller = controller
+        self.serializer = serializer or ResponseSerializer()
+        self.deserializer = deserializer or RequestDeserializer()
+
+    @webob.dec.wsgify(RequestClass=Request)
+    def __call__(self, request):
+        """WSGI method that controls (de)serialization and method dispatch."""
+
+        try:
+            action, action_args, accept = self.deserialize_request(request)
+        except exception.InvalidContentType:
+            msg = _("Unsupported Content-Type")
+            return webob.exc.HTTPUnsupportedMediaType(explanation=msg)
+        except exception.MalformedRequestBody:
+            msg = _("Malformed request body")
+            return webob.exc.HTTPBadRequest(explanation=msg)
+
+        action_result = self.execute_action(action, request, **action_args)
+        try:
+            return self.serialize_response(action, action_result, accept)
+        # return unserializable result (typically a webob exc)
+        except Exception:
+            return action_result
+
+    def deserialize_request(self, request):
+        return self.deserializer.deserialize(request)
+
+    def serialize_response(self, action, action_result, accept):
+        return self.serializer.serialize(action_result, accept, action)
+
+    def execute_action(self, action, request, **action_args):
+        return self.dispatch(self.controller, action, request, **action_args)
+
+    def dispatch(self, obj, action, *args, **kwargs):
+        """Find action-specific method on self and call it."""
+        try:
+            method = getattr(obj, action)
+        except AttributeError:
+            method = getattr(obj, 'default')
+
+        return method(*args, **kwargs)
+
+    def get_action_args(self, request_environment):
+        """Parse dictionary created by routes library."""
+        try:
+            args = request_environment['wsgiorg.routing_args'][1].copy()
+        except Exception:
+            return {}
+
+        try:
+            del args['controller']
+        except KeyError:
+            pass
+
+        try:
+            del args['format']
+        except KeyError:
+            pass
+
+        return args
+
+
+class ActionDispatcher(object):
+    """Maps method name to local methods through action name."""
+
+    def dispatch(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        """Find and call local method."""
+        action = kwargs.pop('action', 'default')
+        action_method = getattr(self, str(action), self.default)
+        return action_method(*args, **kwargs)
+
+    def default(self, data):
+        raise NotImplementedError()
+
+
+class DictSerializer(ActionDispatcher):
+    """Default request body serialization"""
+
+    def serialize(self, data, action='default'):
+        return self.dispatch(data, action=action)
+
+    def default(self, data):
+        return ""
+
+
+class JSONDictSerializer(DictSerializer):
+    """Default JSON request body serialization"""
+
+    def default(self, data):
+        def sanitizer(obj):
+            if isinstance(obj, datetime.datetime):
+                _dtime = obj - datetime.timedelta(microseconds=obj.microsecond)
+                return _dtime.isoformat()
+            return obj
+        return jsonutils.dumps(data, default=sanitizer)
+
+
+class XMLDictSerializer(DictSerializer):
+
+    def __init__(self, metadata=None, xmlns=None):
+        """
+        :param metadata: information needed to deserialize xml into
+                         a dictionary.
+        :param xmlns: XML namespace to include with serialized xml
+        """
+        super(XMLDictSerializer, self).__init__()
+        self.metadata = metadata or {}
+        self.xmlns = xmlns
+
+    def default(self, data):
+        # We expect data to contain a single key which is the XML root.
+        root_key = data.keys()[0]
+        doc = minidom.Document()
+        node = self._to_xml_node(doc, self.metadata, root_key, data[root_key])
+
+        return self.to_xml_string(node)
+
+    def to_xml_string(self, node, has_atom=False):
+        self._add_xmlns(node, has_atom)
+        return node.toprettyxml(indent='    ', encoding='UTF-8')
+
+    #NOTE (ameade): the has_atom should be removed after all of the
+    # xml serializers and view builders have been updated to the current
+    # spec that required all responses include the xmlns:atom, the has_atom
+    # flag is to prevent current tests from breaking
+    def _add_xmlns(self, node, has_atom=False):
+        if self.xmlns is not None:
+            node.setAttribute('xmlns', self.xmlns)
+        if has_atom:
+            node.setAttribute('xmlns:atom', "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom")
+
+    def _to_xml_node(self, doc, metadata, nodename, data):
+        """Recursive method to convert data members to XML nodes."""
+        result = doc.createElement(nodename)
+
+        # Set the xml namespace if one is specified
+        # TODO(justinsb): We could also use prefixes on the keys
+        xmlns = metadata.get('xmlns', None)
+        if xmlns:
+            result.setAttribute('xmlns', xmlns)
+
+        #TODO(bcwaldon): accomplish this without a type-check
+        if type(data) is list:
+            collections = metadata.get('list_collections', {})
+            if nodename in collections:
+                metadata = collections[nodename]
+                for item in data:
+                    node = doc.createElement(metadata['item_name'])
+                    node.setAttribute(metadata['item_key'], str(item))
+                    result.appendChild(node)
+                return result
+            singular = metadata.get('plurals', {}).get(nodename, None)
+            if singular is None:
+                if nodename.endswith('s'):
+                    singular = nodename[:-1]
+                else:
+                    singular = 'item'
+            for item in data:
+                node = self._to_xml_node(doc, metadata, singular, item)
+                result.appendChild(node)
+        #TODO(bcwaldon): accomplish this without a type-check
+        elif type(data) is dict:
+            collections = metadata.get('dict_collections', {})
+            if nodename in collections:
+                metadata = collections[nodename]
+                for k, v in data.items():
+                    node = doc.createElement(metadata['item_name'])
+                    node.setAttribute(metadata['item_key'], str(k))
+                    text = doc.createTextNode(str(v))
+                    node.appendChild(text)
+                    result.appendChild(node)
+                return result
+            attrs = metadata.get('attributes', {}).get(nodename, {})
+            for k, v in data.items():
+                if k in attrs:
+                    result.setAttribute(k, str(v))
+                else:
+                    node = self._to_xml_node(doc, metadata, k, v)
+                    result.appendChild(node)
+        else:
+            # Type is atom
+            node = doc.createTextNode(str(data))
+            result.appendChild(node)
+        return result
+
+    def _create_link_nodes(self, xml_doc, links):
+        link_nodes = []
+        for link in links:
+            link_node = xml_doc.createElement('atom:link')
+            link_node.setAttribute('rel', link['rel'])
+            link_node.setAttribute('href', link['href'])
+            if 'type' in link:
+                link_node.setAttribute('type', link['type'])
+            link_nodes.append(link_node)
+        return link_nodes
+
+
+class ResponseHeadersSerializer(ActionDispatcher):
+    """Default response headers serialization"""
+
+    def serialize(self, response, data, action):
+        self.dispatch(response, data, action=action)
+
+    def default(self, response, data):
+        response.status_int = 200
+
+
+class ResponseSerializer(object):
+    """Encode the necessary pieces into a response object"""
+
+    def __init__(self, body_serializers=None, headers_serializer=None):
+        self.body_serializers = {
+            'application/xml': XMLDictSerializer(),
+            'application/json': JSONDictSerializer(),
+        }
+        self.body_serializers.update(body_serializers or {})
+
+        self.headers_serializer = (headers_serializer or
+                                   ResponseHeadersSerializer())
+
+    def serialize(self, response_data, content_type, action='default'):
+        """Serialize a dict into a string and wrap in a wsgi.Request object.
+
+        :param response_data: dict produced by the Controller
+        :param content_type: expected mimetype of serialized response body
+
+        """
+        response = webob.Response()
+        self.serialize_headers(response, response_data, action)
+        self.serialize_body(response, response_data, content_type, action)
+        return response
+
+    def serialize_headers(self, response, data, action):
+        self.headers_serializer.serialize(response, data, action)
+
+    def serialize_body(self, response, data, content_type, action):
+        response.headers['Content-Type'] = content_type
+        if data is not None:
+            serializer = self.get_body_serializer(content_type)
+            response.body = serializer.serialize(data, action)
+
+    def get_body_serializer(self, content_type):
+        try:
+            return self.body_serializers[content_type]
+        except (KeyError, TypeError):
+            raise exception.InvalidContentType(content_type=content_type)
+
+
+class RequestHeadersDeserializer(ActionDispatcher):
+    """Default request headers deserializer"""
+
+    def deserialize(self, request, action):
+        return self.dispatch(request, action=action)
+
+    def default(self, request):
+        return {}
+
+
+class RequestDeserializer(object):
+    """Break up a Request object into more useful pieces."""
+
+    def __init__(self, body_deserializers=None, headers_deserializer=None,
+                 supported_content_types=None):
+
+        self.supported_content_types = supported_content_types
+
+        self.body_deserializers = {
+            'application/xml': XMLDeserializer(),
+            'application/json': JSONDeserializer(),
+        }
+        self.body_deserializers.update(body_deserializers or {})
+
+        self.headers_deserializer = (headers_deserializer or
+                                     RequestHeadersDeserializer())
+
+    def deserialize(self, request):
+        """Extract necessary pieces of the request.
+
+        :param request: Request object
+        :returns tuple of expected controller action name, dictionary of
+                 keyword arguments to pass to the controller, the expected
+                 content type of the response
+
+        """
+        action_args = self.get_action_args(request.environ)
+        action = action_args.pop('action', None)
+
+        action_args.update(self.deserialize_headers(request, action))
+        action_args.update(self.deserialize_body(request, action))
+
+        accept = self.get_expected_content_type(request)
+
+        return (action, action_args, accept)
+
+    def deserialize_headers(self, request, action):
+        return self.headers_deserializer.deserialize(request, action)
+
+    def deserialize_body(self, request, action):
+        if not len(request.body) > 0:
+            LOG.debug(_("Empty body provided in request"))
+            return {}
+
+        try:
+            content_type = request.get_content_type()
+        except exception.InvalidContentType:
+            LOG.debug(_("Unrecognized Content-Type provided in request"))
+            raise
+
+        if content_type is None:
+            LOG.debug(_("No Content-Type provided in request"))
+            return {}
+
+        try:
+            deserializer = self.get_body_deserializer(content_type)
+        except exception.InvalidContentType:
+            LOG.debug(_("Unable to deserialize body as provided Content-Type"))
+            raise
+
+        return deserializer.deserialize(request.body, action)
+
+    def get_body_deserializer(self, content_type):
+        try:
+            return self.body_deserializers[content_type]
+        except (KeyError, TypeError):
+            raise exception.InvalidContentType(content_type=content_type)
+
+    def get_expected_content_type(self, request):
+        return request.best_match_content_type(self.supported_content_types)
+
+    def get_action_args(self, request_environment):
+        """Parse dictionary created by routes library."""
+        try:
+            args = request_environment['wsgiorg.routing_args'][1].copy()
+        except Exception:
+            return {}
+
+        try:
+            del args['controller']
+        except KeyError:
+            pass
+
+        try:
+            del args['format']
+        except KeyError:
+            pass
+
+        return args
+
+
+class TextDeserializer(ActionDispatcher):
+    """Default request body deserialization"""
+
+    def deserialize(self, datastring, action='default'):
+        return self.dispatch(datastring, action=action)
+
+    def default(self, datastring):
+        return {}
+
+
+class JSONDeserializer(TextDeserializer):
+
+    def _from_json(self, datastring):
+        try:
+            return jsonutils.loads(datastring)
+        except ValueError:
+            msg = _("cannot understand JSON")
+            raise exception.MalformedRequestBody(reason=msg)
+
+    def default(self, datastring):
+        return {'body': self._from_json(datastring)}
+
+
+class XMLDeserializer(TextDeserializer):
+
+    def __init__(self, metadata=None):
+        """
+        :param metadata: information needed to deserialize xml into
+                         a dictionary.
+        """
+        super(XMLDeserializer, self).__init__()
+        self.metadata = metadata or {}
+
+    def _from_xml(self, datastring):
+        plurals = set(self.metadata.get('plurals', {}))
+
+        try:
+            node = minidom.parseString(datastring).childNodes[0]
+            return {node.nodeName: self._from_xml_node(node, plurals)}
+        except expat.ExpatError:
+            msg = _("cannot understand XML")
+            raise exception.MalformedRequestBody(reason=msg)
+
+    def _from_xml_node(self, node, listnames):
+        """Convert a minidom node to a simple Python type.
+
+        :param listnames: list of XML node names whose subnodes should
+                          be considered list items.
+
+        """
+
+        if len(node.childNodes) == 1 and node.childNodes[0].nodeType == 3:
+            return node.childNodes[0].nodeValue
+        elif node.nodeName in listnames:
+            return [self._from_xml_node(n, listnames) for n in node.childNodes]
+        else:
+            result = dict()
+            for attr in node.attributes.keys():
+                result[attr] = node.attributes[attr].nodeValue
+            for child in node.childNodes:
+                if child.nodeType != node.TEXT_NODE:
+                    result[child.nodeName] = self._from_xml_node(child,
+                                                                 listnames)
+            return result
+
+    def find_first_child_named(self, parent, name):
+        """Search a nodes children for the first child with a given name"""
+        for node in parent.childNodes:
+            if node.nodeName == name:
+                return node
+        return None
+
+    def find_children_named(self, parent, name):
+        """Return all of a nodes children who have the given name"""
+        for node in parent.childNodes:
+            if node.nodeName == name:
+                yield node
+
+    def extract_text(self, node):
+        """Get the text field contained by the given node"""
+        if len(node.childNodes) == 1:
+            child = node.childNodes[0]
+            if child.nodeType == child.TEXT_NODE:
+                return child.nodeValue
+        return ""
+
+    def default(self, datastring):
+        return {'body': self._from_xml(datastring)}
diff --git a/openstack-common.conf b/openstack-common.conf
index f01945db4..3728177f0 100644
--- a/openstack-common.conf
+++ b/openstack-common.conf
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 [DEFAULT]
-modules=cfg,iniparser,rpc,importutils,excutils,local,jsonutils,gettextutils,timeutils,notifier,context,log,service,eventlet_backdoor,network_utils,threadgroup,loopingcall,utils,exception,setup
+modules=cfg,iniparser,rpc,importutils,excutils,local,jsonutils,gettextutils,timeutils,notifier,context,log,service,eventlet_backdoor,network_utils,threadgroup,loopingcall,utils,exception,setup,wsgi
 base=moniker