diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 29a6a85..e24a7b2 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@
          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>
+    <packaging>pom</packaging>
+
+    <modules>
+        <module>resource-manager-api</module>
+    </modules>
 
     <parent>
         <artifactId>maven-boot</artifactId>
diff --git a/resource-manager-api/pom.xml b/resource-manager-api/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4ec9f0b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/resource-manager-api/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<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">
+    <parent>
+        <artifactId>resource-manager</artifactId>
+        <groupId>de.nclazz</groupId>
+        <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    </parent>
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+    <artifactId>resource-manager-api</artifactId>
+
+
+</project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/nclazz/resources/Resource.java b/resource-manager-api/src/main/java/de/nclazz/resources/Resource.java
similarity index 100%
rename from src/main/java/de/nclazz/resources/Resource.java
rename to resource-manager-api/src/main/java/de/nclazz/resources/Resource.java
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/nclazz/resources/ResourceMapping.java b/resource-manager-api/src/main/java/de/nclazz/resources/ResourceMapping.java
similarity index 100%
rename from src/main/java/de/nclazz/resources/ResourceMapping.java
rename to resource-manager-api/src/main/java/de/nclazz/resources/ResourceMapping.java
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/nclazz/resources/ResourceRepository.java b/resource-manager-api/src/main/java/de/nclazz/resources/ResourceRepository.java
similarity index 100%
rename from src/main/java/de/nclazz/resources/ResourceRepository.java
rename to resource-manager-api/src/main/java/de/nclazz/resources/ResourceRepository.java
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/nclazz/resources/loader/YamlResource.java b/resource-manager-api/src/main/java/de/nclazz/resources/loader/YamlResource.java
similarity index 100%
rename from src/main/java/de/nclazz/resources/loader/YamlResource.java
rename to resource-manager-api/src/main/java/de/nclazz/resources/loader/YamlResource.java
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/nclazz/resources/loader/YamlResourceRepository.java b/resource-manager-api/src/main/java/de/nclazz/resources/loader/YamlResourceRepository.java
similarity index 100%
rename from src/main/java/de/nclazz/resources/loader/YamlResourceRepository.java
rename to resource-manager-api/src/main/java/de/nclazz/resources/loader/YamlResourceRepository.java
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/nclazz/resources/loader/YamlResourceRepositoryLoader.java b/resource-manager-api/src/main/java/de/nclazz/resources/loader/YamlResourceRepositoryLoader.java
similarity index 100%
rename from src/main/java/de/nclazz/resources/loader/YamlResourceRepositoryLoader.java
rename to resource-manager-api/src/main/java/de/nclazz/resources/loader/YamlResourceRepositoryLoader.java
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/nclazz/resources/protocol/ClasspathResourceHandler.java b/resource-manager-api/src/main/java/de/nclazz/resources/protocol/ClasspathResourceHandler.java
similarity index 100%
rename from src/main/java/de/nclazz/resources/protocol/ClasspathResourceHandler.java
rename to resource-manager-api/src/main/java/de/nclazz/resources/protocol/ClasspathResourceHandler.java
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/nclazz/resources/protocol/CustomStreamHandlerFactory.java b/resource-manager-api/src/main/java/de/nclazz/resources/protocol/CustomStreamHandlerFactory.java
similarity index 100%
rename from src/main/java/de/nclazz/resources/protocol/CustomStreamHandlerFactory.java
rename to resource-manager-api/src/main/java/de/nclazz/resources/protocol/CustomStreamHandlerFactory.java
diff --git a/src/test/java/de/nclazz/resources/ResourceMappingTest.java b/resource-manager-api/src/test/java/de/nclazz/resources/ResourceMappingTest.java
similarity index 100%
rename from src/test/java/de/nclazz/resources/ResourceMappingTest.java
rename to resource-manager-api/src/test/java/de/nclazz/resources/ResourceMappingTest.java
diff --git a/src/test/java/de/nclazz/resources/ResourceRepositoryTest.java b/resource-manager-api/src/test/java/de/nclazz/resources/ResourceRepositoryTest.java
similarity index 100%
rename from src/test/java/de/nclazz/resources/ResourceRepositoryTest.java
rename to resource-manager-api/src/test/java/de/nclazz/resources/ResourceRepositoryTest.java
diff --git a/src/test/java/de/nclazz/resources/ResourceTest.java b/resource-manager-api/src/test/java/de/nclazz/resources/ResourceTest.java
similarity index 100%
rename from src/test/java/de/nclazz/resources/ResourceTest.java
rename to resource-manager-api/src/test/java/de/nclazz/resources/ResourceTest.java
diff --git a/src/test/java/de/nclazz/resources/loader/YamlResourceRepositoryLoaderTest.java b/resource-manager-api/src/test/java/de/nclazz/resources/loader/YamlResourceRepositoryLoaderTest.java
similarity index 100%
rename from src/test/java/de/nclazz/resources/loader/YamlResourceRepositoryLoaderTest.java
rename to resource-manager-api/src/test/java/de/nclazz/resources/loader/YamlResourceRepositoryLoaderTest.java
diff --git a/src/test/resources/data/airplane.png b/resource-manager-api/src/test/resources/data/airplane.png
similarity index 100%
rename from src/test/resources/data/airplane.png
rename to resource-manager-api/src/test/resources/data/airplane.png
diff --git a/src/test/resources/data/hellospecific.txt b/resource-manager-api/src/test/resources/data/hellospecific.txt
similarity index 100%
rename from src/test/resources/data/hellospecific.txt
rename to resource-manager-api/src/test/resources/data/hellospecific.txt
diff --git a/src/test/resources/data/helloworld.txt b/resource-manager-api/src/test/resources/data/helloworld.txt
similarity index 100%
rename from src/test/resources/data/helloworld.txt
rename to resource-manager-api/src/test/resources/data/helloworld.txt
diff --git a/src/test/resources/resources-example.yml b/resource-manager-api/src/test/resources/resources-example.yml
similarity index 100%
rename from src/test/resources/resources-example.yml
rename to resource-manager-api/src/test/resources/resources-example.yml