Update appc-common to Karaf 4

update appc-common to karaf 4 feature

Change-Id: Ib0ce37032e63ffc61bef94345701f3ab58785153
Signed-off-by: Ryan Young <ry303t@att.com>
Issue-ID: APPC-1022

46 files changed, 8046 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/CmdLine.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/CmdLine.java
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+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/CmdLine.java
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ECOMP is a trademark and service mark of AT&T Intellectual Property.
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+    package org.onap.appc;
+
+import org.onap.appc.encryption.EncryptionTool;
+
+public class CmdLine {
+
+        public static void main(String[] args) {
+
+            if (args.length < 1) {
+                printUsage();
+                return;
+            }
+
+            String command = args[0];//first parameter
+
+            if (0 == command.compareTo("encrypt") && args.length == 2)//two parameters are required
+            {
+                String clearText = args[1];
+                String encrypted = EncryptionTool.getInstance().encrypt(clearText);
+                System.out.println(encrypted);
+                return;
+            } else {
+                printUsage();
+            }
+        }
+        
+        private static void printUsage(){
+            System.out.println("Usage: java -jar <this jar> ...");
+            System.out.println("\tencrypt <your text> \t\t(Encrypts your text)");
+        }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/Constants.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/Constants.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c1a306a8c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/Constants.java
@@ -0,0 +1,209 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+
+
+package org.onap.appc;
+
+/**
+ * This class contains the definitions of all constant values used in the APPC provider, adapters, and other components.
+ * These constants define properties, settings, and context variables. The context variables can be referenced from
+ * within the directed graph(s) to access information placed their by the provider and adapters.
+ * <p>
+ * Context properties are set in the graph context by the various adapters and the provider, or by the graph itself.
+ * These properties may also be accessed by the graph, adapters, or the provider. It is these properties that allow
+ * communication of state through the directed graph. All context properties have a symbolic name that starts with
+ * "CONTEXT_".
+ * </p>
+ *
+ */
+
+public final class Constants {
+
+    /**
+     * The name for the error code attribute to be set in the context
+     */
+    @SuppressWarnings("nls")
+    public static final String ATTRIBUTE_ERROR_CODE = "error_code";
+
+    /**
+     * The name for the error message attribute to be set in the context
+     */
+    @SuppressWarnings("nls")
+    public static final String ATTRIBUTE_ERROR_MESSAGE = "error-message";
+
+    /**
+     * The name for the success message attribute to be set in the context
+     */
+    @SuppressWarnings("nls")
+    public static final String ATTRIBUTE_SUCCESS_MESSAGE = "success-message";
+
+    public static final String DG_ATTRIBUTE_STATUS = "SvcLogic.status";
+    public static final String DG_OUTPUT_STATUS_CODE = "output.status.code";
+    public static final String DG_OUTPUT_STATUS_MESSAGE = "output.status.message";
+
+    /**
+     * The property that defines the name of the DG service logic to be loaded
+     */
+    public static final String PROPERTY_MODULE_NAME = "appc.service.logic.module.name";
+
+    /**
+     * The property that defines the topology restart DG version to be used
+     */
+    public static final String PROPERTY_TOPOLOGY_VERSION = "appc.topology.dg.version";
+
+    /**
+     * The method name of the DG that is used to perform topology restart operations
+     */
+    public static final String PROPERTY_TOPOLOGY_METHOD = "appc.topology.dg.method";
+
+    /**
+     * The property that supplies the application name
+     */
+    public static final String PROPERTY_APPLICATION_NAME = "appc.application.name";
+
+    /**
+     * The execution mode for the directed graph
+     */
+    public static final String SYNC_MODE = "sync";
+
+    /**
+     * The name of the property that contains the service request enumerated value in the graph's context
+     */
+    public static final String CONTEXT_SERVICE = "org.onap.appc.service";
+
+    /**
+     * The name of the property that contains the VM id value in the graph's context
+     */
+    public static final String CONTEXT_VMID = "org.onap.appc.vmid";
+
+    /**
+     * The name of the property that contains the VM id value in the graph's context
+     */
+    public static final String CONTEXT_IDENTITY_URL = "org.onap.appc.identity.url";
+
+    /**
+     * The name of the property that contains the service request id value in the graph's context
+     */
+    public static final String CONTEXT_REQID = "org.onap.appc.reqid";
+
+    /**
+     * The name of the property that indicates which method of the IaaS adapter to call
+     */
+    public static final String CONTEXT_ACTION = "org.onap.appc.action";
+
+    /**
+     * The enumerated value for restart of a VM. This is a constant for one possible value of CONTEXT_SERVICE.
+     */
+    public static final String SERVICE_RESTART = "RESTART";
+
+    /**
+     * The enumerated value for rebuild of a VM. This is a constant for one possible value of CONTEXT_SERVICE.
+     */
+    public static final String SERVICE_REBUILD = "REBUILD";
+
+    /**
+     * The name of the adapter. We get the name from a property file so that it can be changed easily if needed.
+     */
+    public static final String PROPERTY_ADAPTER_NAME = "org.onap.appc.provider.adaptor.name";
+
+    /**
+     * The minimum number of contexts to cache in each provider/tenant pool
+     */
+    public static final String PROPERTY_MIN_POOL_SIZE = "org.onap.appc.provider.min.pool";
+
+    /**
+     * The maximum number of contexts to cache in each provider/tenant pool
+     */
+    public static final String PROPERTY_MAX_POOL_SIZE = "org.onap.appc.provider.max.pool";
+
+    /**
+     * The amount of time, in seconds, that the application waits for a change of state of a server to a known valid
+     * state before giving up and failing the request.
+     */
+    public static final String PROPERTY_SERVER_STATE_CHANGE_TIMEOUT = "org.onap.appc.server.state.change.timeout";
+
+    /**
+     * The amount of time, in seconds, between subsequent polls to the openstack provider to update the state of a
+     * resource
+     */
+    public static final String PROPERTY_OPENSTACK_POLL_INTERVAL = "org.onap.appc.openstack.poll.interval";
+
+    /**
+     * The amount of time, in seconds, to wait between retry attempts when a connection to a provider fails.
+     */
+    public static final String PROPERTY_RETRY_DELAY = "org.onap.appc.provider.retry.delay";
+
+    /**
+     * The maximum number of times a connection retry will be attempted before the application fails the request
+     */
+    public static final String PROPERTY_RETRY_LIMIT = "org.onap.appc.provider.retry.limit";
+    /**
+     * The amount of time, in seconds, that the application waits for a change of state of a stacj to a known valid
+     * state before giving up and failing the request.
+     */
+    public static final String PROPERTY_STACK_STATE_CHANGE_TIMEOUT ="org.onap.appc.stack.state.change.timeout" ;
+
+    @SuppressWarnings("nls")
+    public static final String STATUS_GETTER = "status-getter";
+
+    @SuppressWarnings("nls")
+    public static final String VM_FUSION_STATUS_GETTER = "fusion-vm-status-getter";
+
+    /**
+     * The name for the status vm attribute to be set in the context when executing a vmstatuscheck.
+     */
+    @SuppressWarnings("nls")
+    public static final String STATUS_OF_VM = "status-vm";
+
+    /**
+     * Yang revision value to be used while generating YANG module
+     */
+    public static final String YANG_REVISION = "2017-03-03";
+    /**
+     * Yang revision format to be used while formatting YANG revision date
+     */
+    public static final String YANG_REVISION_FORMAT = "YYYY-MM-DD";
+
+    /**
+     * Base container for  yang that is generated to store in MD-SAL datastore
+     */
+    public static final String YANG_BASE_CONTAINER = "vnf-config-repo";
+
+    /**
+     *VNF config list for yang that is generated to store in MD-SAL datastore
+     */
+    public static final String YANG_VNF_CONFIG_LIST = "vnf-config-list";
+
+    /**
+     *Base container of VNF configuration data for yang that is generated to store in MD-SAL datastore
+     */
+    public static final String YANG_VNF_CONFIG = "vnf-config";
+
+    /**
+     * default constructor prevents instantiation
+     */
+    Constants() {
+        throw new IllegalAccessError("Constants");
+    }
+}
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/cache/CacheStrategies.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/cache/CacheStrategies.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..12f36863e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/cache/CacheStrategies.java
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+package org.onap.appc.cache;
+
+/**
+ * Enum of CacheStrategies
+ */
+public enum CacheStrategies {
+    LRU
+}
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/cache/CacheStrategy.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/cache/CacheStrategy.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8976a2075
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/cache/CacheStrategy.java
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+package org.onap.appc.cache;
+
+/**
+ * Interface of CacheStrategy
+ * @param <K> key
+ * @param <V> value
+ */
+public interface CacheStrategy <K,V> {
+    /**
+     * Get object
+     * @param key of the object
+     * @return value of the object
+     */
+    V getObject(K key);
+
+    /**
+     * Put object
+     * @param key of the object
+     * @param value of the object
+     */
+    void putObject(K key,V value);
+}
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/cache/MetadataCache.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/cache/MetadataCache.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..caf319a60
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/cache/MetadataCache.java
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+package org.onap.appc.cache;
+
+/**
+ * Interface of MetadataCache
+ * @param <K> key
+ * @param <V> value
+ */
+public interface MetadataCache <K,V> {
+    /**
+     * Get object
+     * @param key of the object
+     * @return value of the object
+     */
+    V getObject(K key);
+
+    /**
+     * Put object
+     * @param key of the object
+     * @param value of the object
+     */
+    void putObject(K key,V value);
+}
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/cache/impl/LRUCache.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/cache/impl/LRUCache.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c88439c32
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/cache/impl/LRUCache.java
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+package org.onap.appc.cache.impl;
+
+import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import org.onap.appc.cache.CacheStrategy;
+
+/**
+ * LRU cache implements CacheStategy<K, V>
+ * @param <K> Key
+ * @param <V> Value
+ */
+public class LRUCache<K,V> implements CacheStrategy<K,V> {
+
+    private Map<K,V> map;
+
+    LRUCache(final Integer capacity){
+        map = new LinkedHashMap<K,V>(capacity, 0.75F, true) {
+            @Override
+            protected boolean removeEldestEntry(Map.Entry<K, V> eldest){
+                return size() > capacity;
+            }
+        };
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public V getObject(K key) {
+        return map.get(key);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void putObject(K key, V value) {
+        map.put(key,value);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/cache/impl/MetadataCacheFactory.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/cache/impl/MetadataCacheFactory.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b6398e8a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/cache/impl/MetadataCacheFactory.java
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+package org.onap.appc.cache.impl;
+
+import org.onap.appc.cache.CacheStrategies;
+import org.onap.appc.cache.MetadataCache;
+
+/**
+ * Metadata Cache Factory
+ */
+public class MetadataCacheFactory {
+
+    private static class ReferenceHolder {
+        private ReferenceHolder() {
+            throw new IllegalAccessError("ReferenceHolder");
+        }
+
+        private static final MetadataCacheFactory FACTORY = new MetadataCacheFactory();
+    }
+
+    private MetadataCacheFactory() {
+        // do nothing
+    }
+
+    public static MetadataCacheFactory getInstance(){
+        return ReferenceHolder.FACTORY;
+    }
+
+    public MetadataCache getMetadataCache(){
+        return new MetadataCacheImpl();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Get MetadataCache
+     * @param cacheStrategy the CacheStrategies to be used to build MetadataCacheImpl
+     * @return a new instance of MetadataCacheImpl
+     */
+    public MetadataCache getMetadataCache(CacheStrategies cacheStrategy) {
+        return new MetadataCacheImpl(cacheStrategy);
+    }
+
+
+
+}
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/cache/impl/MetadataCacheImpl.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/cache/impl/MetadataCacheImpl.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..92b70c95d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/cache/impl/MetadataCacheImpl.java
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+package org.onap.appc.cache.impl;
+
+import org.onap.appc.cache.CacheStrategies;
+import org.onap.appc.cache.CacheStrategy;
+import org.onap.appc.cache.MetadataCache;
+
+/**
+ * Implementation of MetadataCache
+ * @param <K> Key
+ * @param <V> Value
+ */
+public class MetadataCacheImpl<K,V> implements MetadataCache<K,V> {
+
+    private CacheStrategy strategy;
+
+    MetadataCacheImpl(){
+        this(CacheStrategies.LRU);
+    }
+
+    MetadataCacheImpl(CacheStrategies strategy){
+        this.strategy = initializeStrategy(strategy);
+    }
+
+    private CacheStrategy initializeStrategy(CacheStrategies strategy) {
+        if (strategy != null) {
+            switch (strategy) {
+                case LRU:
+                    return new LRUCache<>(50);
+                default:
+                    // do nothing
+            }
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public V getObject(K key) {
+        return (V)strategy.getObject(key);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void putObject(K key, V value) {
+        strategy.putObject(key, value);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/concurrent/Signal.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/concurrent/Signal.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2daa0cf52
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/concurrent/Signal.java
@@ -0,0 +1,230 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+package org.onap.appc.concurrent;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException;
+
+import org.onap.appc.util.StringHelper;
+
+/**
+ * This class is used to synchronize signaling of status between threads.
+ * <p>
+ * In complex multi-threaded applications it is often necessary to synchronize operations between threads. This is
+ * especially true in complex algorithms where processing dependencies exist between different threads and the
+ * synchronization of the operations of those threads is required. This class is a framework to enable multi-thread
+ * signaling and wait/post logic that makes the thread synchronization easier.
+ * </p>
+ * <p>
+ * Basically, in thread synchronization, one thread is the "waiter" and one or more other threads are the "notifiers".
+ * The notifiers send signals to the waiter to inform that thread that certain conditions are true, processing has been
+ * completed, or to inform the waiter of the state of the other thread(s). In the basic java framework, the waiter and
+ * notifier are simply using the wait/notify mechanism provided, which does not allow for different conditions, state,
+ * or "signals" to exist. The wait/notify mechanism, in combination with the object mutex, provides basic blocking and
+ * releasing of a thread's dispatching state.
+ * </p>
+ * <p>
+ * This class builds upon the java wait/notify mechanism and allows for "signals" to be defined. These signals are
+ * simply string constants that mean something to the waiter and notifier threads. Any number of signals may be defined,
+ * and it is possible to wait for more than one signal to be received, wait for any one of a set to be received, or to
+ * test if a signal has been received without blocking.
+ * </p>
+ * <p>
+ * Some operations are blocking operations. These stop the execution of the calling thread until the specified condition
+ * is true. These blocking methods are all named "wait...", such as {@link #waitFor(String...)} and
+ * {@link #waitForAny(String...)}. The thread making the call to these blocking methods MUST be the waiter thread (the
+ * thread registered with the signal object).
+ * </p>
+ * <p>
+ * Some operations are non-blocking. These operations allow for the testing or setting of signal conditions and do not
+ * block the caller. When calling these methods ({@link #isSignaled(String)}, {@link #signal(String)}, and
+ * {@link #setTimeout(long)} the waiter thread mutex will be held and may block the waiter thread for the duration of
+ * the method call.
+ * </p>
+ */
+public class Signal {
+
+    /**
+     * The thread must be the thread of the waiter that is waiting for the signals to be received. It is the recipient
+     * of the signaled condition. This allows any number of other threads to send signals to the recipient and have the
+     * recipient synchronize its operation with the receipt of the appropriate signal(s).
+     */
+    private Thread thread;
+
+    /**
+     * The amount of time to wait for a signal to be receieved. Set to zero to wait forever.
+     */
+    private long timeout = 0L;
+
+    /**
+     * The collection of all received signals. Note, this need not be a synchronized collection because it will always
+     * be accessed while holding the mutex of the thread, therefore it is implicitly synchronized.
+     */
+    private List<String> receivedSignals;
+
+    /**
+     * A signal object must access a thread that is waiting for the receipt of the signal(s).
+     */
+    public Signal(Thread thread) {
+        this.thread = thread;
+        receivedSignals = new ArrayList<String>();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Checks the waiter to see if it has been signaled
+     * 
+     * @param signal
+     *            The signal to check for
+     * @return True if the signal has been received, false otherwise
+     */
+    public boolean isSignaled(String signal) {
+        synchronized (thread) {
+            return _signaled(signal);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Sends the indicated signal to the waiter.
+     * 
+     * @param signal
+     *            The signal that is to be sent to the waiting thread and to notify it to process the signal.
+     */
+    public void signal(String signal) {
+        synchronized (thread) {
+            if (!_signaled(signal)) {
+                receivedSignals.add(signal);
+            }
+            thread.notify();
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Blocks the waiting thread until all of the indicated signals have been received, or the wait times out.
+     * 
+     * @param signals
+     *            The signals to be received. The waiter is blocked forever or until all of the signals are received.
+     * @throws TimeoutException
+     *             If the wait has timed out waiting for a response
+     */
+    public void waitFor(String... signals) throws TimeoutException {
+        long limit = System.currentTimeMillis() + timeout;
+        synchronized (thread) {
+            while (true) {
+                boolean complete = true;
+                for (String signal : signals) {
+                    if (!_signaled(signal)) {
+                        complete = false;
+                    }
+                }
+
+                if (complete) {
+                    receivedSignals.removeAll(Arrays.asList(signals));
+                    return;
+                }
+
+                if (timeout > 0) {
+                    if (System.currentTimeMillis() > limit) {
+                        throw new TimeoutException(String.format("Signals %s not received in the allotted timeout.",
+                            StringHelper.asList(signals)));
+                    }
+                }
+
+                try {
+                    thread.wait(timeout);
+                } catch (InterruptedException e) {
+                    /*
+                     * Interrupted exceptions are ignored
+                     */
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This method blocks the waiter until at least one of the indicated signals have been received.
+     * 
+     * @param signals
+     *            A list of signals, any one of which will satisfy the wait condition
+     * @return The signal that satisfied the wait
+     * @throws TimeoutException
+     *             If none of the signals have been received within the allotted time
+     */
+    public String waitForAny(String... signals) throws TimeoutException {
+        long limit = System.currentTimeMillis() + timeout;
+        synchronized (thread) {
+            while (true) {
+                for (String signal : signals) {
+                    if (!_signaled(signal)) {
+                        receivedSignals.remove(signal);
+                        return signal;
+                    }
+                }
+
+                if (timeout > 0) {
+                    if (System.currentTimeMillis() > limit) {
+                        throw new TimeoutException(
+                            String.format("One of signals \"%s\" not received in the allotted timeout.",
+                                StringHelper.asList(signals)));
+                    }
+                }
+
+                try {
+                    thread.wait(timeout);
+                } catch (InterruptedException e) {
+                    /*
+                     * Interrupted exceptions are ignored
+                     */
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This private method is used to handle the check for signaled status. Note that this method assumes the caller
+     * holds the thread mutex.
+     * 
+     * @param signals
+     *            The list of signals to check for
+     * @return True if any one of the signals has been received.
+     */
+    private boolean _signaled(String... signals) {
+        for (String signal : signals) {
+            if (receivedSignals.contains(signal)) {
+                return true;
+            }
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Sets the timeout value for waiting for signals to be received
+     * 
+     * @param timeout
+     */
+    public void setTimeout(long timeout) {
+        this.timeout = timeout;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/configuration/Configuration.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/configuration/Configuration.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0cc3f2699
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/configuration/Configuration.java
@@ -0,0 +1,242 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+package org.onap.appc.configuration;
+
+import java.util.Properties;
+
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+
+
+
+/**
+ * This interface defines the common configuration support that is available to the application.
+ * <p>
+ * Where properties are common to all CDP components (server, coordinator, and EPM), the property symbolic values are
+ * defined as part of this interface. Where they are unique to each component, they must be defined within that
+ * component.
+ * </p>
+ */
+public interface Configuration {
+
+    String PROPERTY_BOOTSTRAP_FILE_NAME = "org_onap_appc_bootstrap_file"; //
+    String DEFAULT_BOOTSTRAP_FILE_NAME = "appc.properties"; 
+    String PROPERTY_BOOTSTRAP_FILE_PATH = "org_onap_appc_bootstrap_path"; //
+    String DEFAULT_BOOTSTRAP_FILE_PATH = "/opt/onap/appc/data/properties,${user.home},etc,../etc";
+    String PROPERTY_RESOURCE_BUNDLES = "org.onap.appc.resources"; 
+    String DEFAULT_RESOURCE_BUNDLES = "org/onap/appc/i18n/MessageResources";
+
+   /**
+     * This method is called to obtain a property expressed as a boolean value (true or false). The standard rules for
+     * {@link Boolean#valueOf(String)} are used.
+     * 
+     * @param key
+     *            The property key
+     * @return The value of the property expressed as a boolean, or false if it does not exist.
+     */
+    boolean getBooleanProperty(String key);
+
+    /**
+     * This method is called to obtain a property expressed as a boolean value (true or false). The standard rules for
+     * {@link Boolean#valueOf(String)} are used.
+     * 
+     * @param key
+     *            The property key
+     * @param defaultValue
+     *            The default value to be returned if the property does not exist
+     * @return The value of the property expressed as a boolean, or false if it does not exist.
+     */
+    boolean getBooleanProperty(String key, boolean defaultValue);
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the indicated property value expressed as a floating point double-precision value (double). The standard
+     * rules for {@link Double#valueOf(String)} are used.
+     * 
+     * @param key
+     *            The property to retrieve
+     * @return The value of the property, or 0.0 if not found or invalid
+     */
+    double getDoubleProperty(String key);
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the indicated property value expressed as a floating point double-precision value (double). The standard
+     * rules for {@link Double#valueOf(String)} are used.
+     * 
+     * @param key
+     *            The property to retrieve
+     * @param defaultValue
+     *            The default value to be returned if the property does not exist
+     * @return The value of the property, or 0.0 if not found or invalid
+     */
+    double getDoubleProperty(String key, double defaultValue);
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the property indicated expressed as an integer. The standard rules for
+     * {@link Integer#parseInt(String, int)} using a radix of 10 are used.
+     * 
+     * @param key
+     *            The property name to retrieve.
+     * @return The value of the property, or 0 if it does not exist or is invalid.
+     */
+    int getIntegerProperty(String key);
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the property indicated expressed as an integer. The standard rules for
+     * {@link Integer#parseInt(String, int)} using a radix of 10 are used.
+     * 
+     * @param key
+     *            The property name to retrieve.
+     * @param defaultValue
+     *            The default value to be returned if the property does not exist
+     * @return The value of the property, or 0 if it does not exist or is invalid.
+     */
+    int getIntegerProperty(String key, int defaultValue);
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the specified property as a long integer value, if it exists, or zero if it does not.
+     * 
+     * @param key
+     *            The key of the property desired.
+     * @return The value of the property expressed as an integer long value, or zero if the property does not exist or
+     *         is not a valid integer long.
+     */
+    long getLongProperty(String key);
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the specified property as a long integer value, if it exists, or the default value if it does not exist
+     * or is invalid.
+     * 
+     * @param key
+     *            The key of the property desired.
+     * @param defaultValue
+     *            the value to be returned if the property is not valid or does not exist.
+     * @return The value of the property expressed as an integer long value, or the default value if the property does
+     *         not exist or is not a valid integer long.
+     */
+    long getLongProperty(String key, long defaultValue);
+
+    /**
+     * This method can be called to retrieve a properties object that is immutable. Any attempt to modify the properties
+     * object returned will result in an exception. This allows a caller to view the current configuration as a set of
+     * properties.
+     * 
+     * @return An unmodifiable properties object.
+     */
+    Properties getProperties();
+
+    /**
+     * This method is called to obtain a property as a string value
+     * 
+     * @param key
+     *            The key of the property
+     * @return The string value, or null if it does not exist.
+     */
+    String getProperty(String key);
+
+    /**
+     * This method is called to obtain a property as a string value
+     * 
+     * @param key
+     *            The key of the property
+     * @param defaultValue
+     *            The default value to be returned if the property does not exist
+     * @return The string value, or null if it does not exist.
+     */
+    String getProperty(String key, String defaultValue);
+
+    /**
+     * Returns true if the named property is defined, false otherwise.
+     * 
+     * @param key
+     *            The key of the property we are interested in
+     * @return True if the property exists.
+     */
+    boolean isPropertyDefined(String key);
+
+    /**
+     * Returns an indication of the validity of the boolean property. A boolean property is considered to be valid only
+     * if it has the value "true" or "false" (ignoring case).
+     * 
+     * @param key
+     *            The property to be checked
+     * @return True if the value is a boolean constant, or false if it does not exist or is not a correct string
+     */
+    boolean isValidBoolean(String key);
+
+    /**
+     * Returns an indication if the indicated property represents a valid double-precision floating point number.
+     * 
+     * @param key
+     *            The property to be examined
+     * @return True if the property is a valid representation of a double, or false if it does not exist or contains
+     *         illegal characters.
+     */
+    boolean isValidDouble(String key);
+
+    /**
+     * Returns an indication if the property is a valid integer value or not.
+     * 
+     * @param key
+     *            The key of the property to check
+     * @return True if the value is a valid integer string, or false if it does not exist or contains illegal
+     *         characters.
+     */
+    boolean isValidInteger(String key);
+
+    /**
+     * Determines is the specified property exists and is a valid representation of an integer long value.
+     * 
+     * @param key
+     *            The property to be checked
+     * @return True if the property is a valid representation of an integer long value, and false if it either does not
+     *         exist or is not valid.
+     */
+    boolean isValidLong(String key);
+
+    /**
+     * This method allows the caller to set all properties from a provided properties object into the configuration
+     * property set.
+     * <p>
+     * The primary difference between this method and the factory method
+     * {@link ConfigurationFactory#getConfiguration(Properties)} is that this method does not clear and reload the
+     * configuration. Rather, this method merges the provided properties object contents into the existing properties,
+     * replacing any same-named keys with the values from this object.
+     * </p>
+     * 
+     * @param properties
+     *            The properties object to copy all properties from
+     */
+    void setProperties(Properties properties);
+
+    /**
+     * This method allows a caller to insert a new property definition into the configuration object. This allows the
+     * application to adjust or add to the current configuration. If the property already exists, it is replaced with
+     * the new value.
+     * 
+     * @param key
+     *            The key of the property to be defined
+     * @param value
+     *            The value of the property to be defined
+     */
+    void setProperty(String key, String value);
+}
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/configuration/ConfigurationFactory.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/configuration/ConfigurationFactory.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9ea5083fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/configuration/ConfigurationFactory.java
@@ -0,0 +1,433 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+package org.onap.appc.configuration;
+
+import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileInputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.text.DateFormat;
+import java.util.Date;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Optional;
+import java.util.Properties;
+import java.util.concurrent.locks.ReentrantReadWriteLock;
+import java.util.concurrent.locks.ReentrantReadWriteLock.ReadLock;
+import java.util.concurrent.locks.ReentrantReadWriteLock.WriteLock;
+import org.onap.appc.i18n.Msg;
+import com.att.eelf.configuration.EELFLogger;
+import com.att.eelf.configuration.EELFManager;
+import com.att.eelf.i18n.EELFResourceManager;
+
+/**
+ * The configuration factory is used to obtain access to an already created and initialized
+ * singleton configuration object as well as to create and initialize the singleton if not already
+ * set up.
+ * <p>
+ * This class is responsible for the creation of the configuration object used to manage the
+ * configuration of the application. The configuration object implementation must implement the
+ * <code>Configuration</code> interface. This allows for the factory to create different
+ * specializations in the future if needed and not break any application code.
+ * </p>
+ * <p>
+ * The configuration object is basically a wrapper around a properties object. The configuration is
+ * therefore specified as a set of properties that are loaded and processed from different sources
+ * with different precedences. It is important that the configuration object always be able to
+ * supply default values for any configuration properties that must be supplied, and not rely on the
+ * user always supplying these values. This also relieves the application itself from having to
+ * interpret missing or invalid properties and applying defaults. By having all of the defaults in
+ * one place, the application code can be simpler (not having to worry about defaults or invalid
+ * properties), and the defaults can be changed much easier (they are all in one place and not
+ * distributed throughout the codebase).
+ * </p>
+ * <p>
+ * Since the configuration is managed as a property object, we can use a characteristic of the
+ * <code>Properties</code> class to our advantage. Namely, if we put a property into a
+ * <code>Properties</code> object that already exists, the <code>Properties</code> object replaces
+ * it with the new value. This does not affect any other properties that may already be defined in
+ * the properties object. This gives us the ability to initialize the properties with default values
+ * for all of the application settings, then override just those that we need to override, possibly
+ * from multiple sources and in increasing order of precedence.
+ * </p>
+ * <p>
+ * This means that properties are in effect "merged" together from multiple sources in a prescribed
+ * precedence order. In fact, the precedence order that this factory implements is defined as:
+ * </p>
+ * <ol>
+ * <li>Default values from a system resource file.</li>
+ * <li>User-supplied properties file, if any.</li>
+ * <li>Application-supplied properties, if any.</li>
+ * <li>Command-line properties (if any)</li>
+ * </ol>
+ * <p>
+ * The name and location of the properties file that is loaded can also be set, either in the
+ * defaults, overridden by the system command line via -D, or as a system environment variable.
+ * There are two properties that can be specified to define the name and path. These are:
+ * </p>
+ * <dl>
+ * <dt>org.onap.appc.bootstrap.file</dt>
+ * <dd>This property defines the name of the file that will be loaded. If not specified, the default
+ * value is "appc.properties". This can be specified in either (or both) the default properties or
+ * the command line. The command line specification will always override.</dd>
+ * <dt>org.onap.appc.bootstrap.path</dt>
+ * <dd>This is a comma-delimited (,) path of directories to be searched to locate the specified
+ * file. The first occurrence of the file is the one loaded, and no additional searching is
+ * performed. The path can be specified in either, or both, the default values and the command line
+ * specification. If specified on the command line, the value overrides the default values. If
+ * omitted, the default path is <code>$/opt/onap/appc/data/properties,${user.home},.</code></dd>
+ * </dl>
+ *
+ * @since Mar 18, 2014
+ * @version $Id$
+ */
+public final class ConfigurationFactory {
+
+    private static final EELFLogger logger = EELFManager.getInstance().getLogger(ConfigurationFactory.class);
+
+    /**
+     * This is a string constant for the comma character. It's intended to be used a common string
+     * delimiter.
+     */
+    private static final String COMMA = ",";
+
+    /**
+     * The default Configuration object that implements the <code>Configuration</code> interface and
+     * represents our system configuration settings.
+     */
+    private static DefaultConfiguration config = null;
+
+    /**
+     * The default properties resource to be loaded
+     */
+    private static final String DEFAULT_PROPERTIES = "org/onap/appc/default.properties";
+
+    /**
+     * This collection allows for special configurations to be created and maintained, organized by
+     * some identification (such as an object reference to the StackBuilder to which they apply),
+     * and then obtained from the configuration factory when needed.
+     */
+    private static HashMap<Object, Configuration> localConfigs = new HashMap<>();
+
+    /**
+     * The reentrant shared lock used to serialize access to the properties.
+     */
+    private static ReentrantReadWriteLock lock = new ReentrantReadWriteLock();
+
+    /**
+     * This is a constant array of special property names that will be copied from the configuration
+     * back to the System properties object if they are defined in the configuration AND they do not
+     * already exist in the System properties object. These are intended as a convenience for
+     * setting the AFT properties for the Discovery client where it may be difficult or impossible
+     * to set VM arguments for the container.
+     */
+    private static final String[] specialProperties =
+            {"AFT_LATITUDE", "AFT_LONGITUDE", "AFT_ENVIRONMENT", "SCLD_PLATFORM"};
+
+    private ConfigurationFactory() {}
+
+    /**
+     * This method is used to obtain the common configuration object (as well as set it up if not
+     * already).
+     *
+     * @return The configuration object implementation
+     */
+    public static Configuration getConfiguration() {
+
+        /*
+         * First, attempt to access the properties as a read lock holder
+         */
+        ReadLock readLock = lock.readLock();
+        readLock.lock();
+        try {
+
+            /*
+             * If the properties don't exist, release the read lock and acquire the write lock. Once
+             * we get the write lock, we need to re-check to see that the configuration needs to be
+             * set up (because another thread may have beat us to it). After we get a configuration
+             * set up, release the write lock and re-obtain the read lock to access the properties.
+             */
+            if (config == null) {
+                readLock.unlock();
+                WriteLock writeLock = lock.writeLock();
+                writeLock.lock();
+                try {
+                    if (config == null) {
+                        config = new DefaultConfiguration();
+                        initialize(null);
+                    }
+                } catch (Exception e){
+                    logger.error("getConfiguration", e);
+                } finally {
+                    writeLock.unlock();
+                }
+                readLock.lock();
+            }
+        } finally {
+            readLock.unlock();
+        }
+        return config;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This method will obtain the local configuration for the specified object if it exists, or
+     * will create it from the current global configuration. This allows the configuration to be
+     * tailored for a specific process or operation, and uniquely identified by some value (such as
+     * the object that represents the special use of the configuration).
+     *
+     * @param owner The owner or identification of the owner of the special configuration
+     * @return The special configuration object, or a clone of the global configuration so that it
+     *         can be altered if needed.
+     */
+    public static Configuration getConfiguration(final Object owner) {
+        DefaultConfiguration local;
+        ReadLock readLock = lock.readLock();
+        readLock.lock();
+        try {
+            local = (DefaultConfiguration) localConfigs.get(owner);
+            if (local == null) {
+                readLock.unlock();
+                WriteLock writeLock = lock.writeLock();
+                writeLock.lock();
+                local = (DefaultConfiguration) localConfigs.get(owner);
+                if (local == null) {
+                    local = getClonedDefaultConfiguration(owner, local);
+                }
+                writeLock.unlock();
+            }
+            readLock.lock();
+        } finally {
+            readLock.unlock();
+        }
+        return local;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This method allows the caller to alter the configuration, supplying the specified
+     * configuration properties which override the application default values.
+     * <p>
+     * The configuration is re-constructed (if already constructed) or created new (if not already
+     * created) and the default properties are loaded into the configuration.
+     * </p>
+     * <p>
+     * The primary purpose of this method is to allow the application configuration properties to be
+     * reset or refreshed after the application has already been initialized. This method will lock
+     * the configuration for the duration while it is being re-built, and should not be called on a
+     * regular basis.
+     * </p>
+     *
+     * @param props The properties used to configure the application.
+     * @return Access to the configuration implementation
+     */
+    public static Configuration getConfiguration(final Properties props) {
+        WriteLock writeLock = lock.writeLock();
+        writeLock.lock();
+        try {
+            config = new DefaultConfiguration();
+            initialize(props);
+            return config;
+        } finally {
+            writeLock.unlock();
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static DefaultConfiguration getClonedDefaultConfiguration(Object owner, DefaultConfiguration local) {
+        Optional<DefaultConfiguration> global =
+                Optional.ofNullable((DefaultConfiguration) getConfiguration());
+        try {
+            if (global.isPresent()) {
+                local = (DefaultConfiguration) global.get().clone();
+            }
+        } catch (CloneNotSupportedException e) {
+            logger.error("getClonedDefaultConfiguration", e);
+        }
+        localConfigs.put(owner, local);
+        return local;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This method will clear the current configuration and then re-initialize it with the default
+     * values, application-specific configuration file, user-supplied properties (if any), and then
+     * command-line settings.
+     * <p>
+     * This method <strong><em>MUST</em></strong> be called holding the configuration lock!
+     * </p>
+     * <p>
+     * This method is a little special in that logging messages generated during the method must be
+     * cached and delayed until after the logging framework has been initialized. After that, the
+     * delayed logging buffer can be dumped to the log file and cleared.
+     * </p>
+     *
+     * @param props Application-supplied configuration values, if any
+     */
+    private static void initialize(final Properties props) {
+        DateFormat format = DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(DateFormat.LONG, DateFormat.LONG);
+        Date now = new Date();
+        logger.info(
+                "------------------------------------------------------------------------------");
+
+        logger.info(Msg.CONFIGURATION_STARTED, format.format(now));
+
+        /*
+         * Clear any existing properties
+         */
+        config.clear();
+        logger.info(Msg.CONFIGURATION_CLEARED);
+
+        /*
+         * Load the defaults (if any are present)
+         */
+        InputStream in = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader()
+                .getResourceAsStream(DEFAULT_PROPERTIES);
+        if (in != null) {
+            logger.info(Msg.LOADING_DEFAULTS, DEFAULT_PROPERTIES);
+            try {
+                config.setProperties(in);
+            } finally {
+                try {
+                    in.close();
+                } catch (IOException e) {
+                    logger.error("Cannot close inputStream", e);
+                }
+            }
+            for (String key : config.getProperties().stringPropertyNames()) {
+                logger.info(Msg.PROPERTY_VALUE, key, config.getProperty(key));
+            }
+        } else {
+            logger.info(Msg.NO_DEFAULTS_FOUND, DEFAULT_PROPERTIES);
+        }
+
+        /*
+         * Look for application configuration property file. By default, we will look for the file
+         * "cdp.properties" on the user home path, then on "./etc" (relative to current path), then
+         * on "../etc" (relative to current path). If we do not find any property file, then we
+         * continue. Otherwise, we load the first property file we find and then continue. In order
+         * to allow default values for the filename and paths to be searched, we first attempt to
+         * obtain these from our configuration object (which should be primed with default values
+         * and/or overridden with application-specified values). We then use the values obtained
+         * from that to get any user supplied values on the command line.
+         */
+        String filename = config.getProperty(Configuration.PROPERTY_BOOTSTRAP_FILE_NAME,
+                Configuration.DEFAULT_BOOTSTRAP_FILE_NAME);
+        filename = System.getProperty(Configuration.PROPERTY_BOOTSTRAP_FILE_NAME, filename);
+        String env = System.getenv(Configuration.PROPERTY_BOOTSTRAP_FILE_NAME);
+        if (env != null && env.trim().length() > 0) {
+            filename = env;
+        }
+
+        String path = config.getProperty(Configuration.PROPERTY_BOOTSTRAP_FILE_PATH,
+                Configuration.DEFAULT_BOOTSTRAP_FILE_PATH);
+        path = System.getProperty(Configuration.PROPERTY_BOOTSTRAP_FILE_PATH, path);
+        env = System.getenv(Configuration.PROPERTY_BOOTSTRAP_FILE_PATH);
+        if (env != null && env.trim().length() > 0) {
+            path = env;
+        }
+
+        logger.info(Msg.SEARCHING_CONFIGURATION_OVERRIDES, path, filename);
+
+        String[] pathElements = path.split(COMMA);
+        boolean found = false;
+        for (String pathElement : pathElements) {
+            File file = new File(pathElement, filename);
+            if (file.exists() && file.canRead() && !file.isDirectory()) {
+
+                logger.info(Msg.LOADING_CONFIGURATION_OVERRIDES, file.getAbsolutePath());
+                Properties fileProperties = new Properties();
+                BufferedInputStream stream = null;
+                try {
+                    stream = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(file));
+                    fileProperties.load(stream);
+                    for (String key : fileProperties.stringPropertyNames()) {
+                        logger.debug(Msg.PROPERTY_VALUE, key, fileProperties.getProperty(key));
+                        config.setProperty(key, fileProperties.getProperty(key));
+                    }
+                    found = true;
+                    break;
+                } catch (IOException e) {
+                    logger.error(EELFResourceManager.format(e));
+                } finally {
+                    try {
+                        if (stream != null) {
+                            stream.close();
+                        }
+                    } catch (IOException e) {
+                        logger.error("Unable to close stream", e);
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        if (!found) {
+            logger.warn(Msg.NO_OVERRIDE_PROPERTY_FILE_LOADED, filename, path);
+        }
+
+        /*
+         * Apply any application-specified properties
+         */
+        if (props != null) {
+            logger.info(Msg.LOADING_APPLICATION_OVERRIDES);
+            for (String key : props.stringPropertyNames()) {
+                logger.debug(Msg.PROPERTY_VALUE, key, props.getProperty(key));
+                config.setProperty(key, props.getProperty(key));
+            }
+        } else {
+            logger.info(Msg.NO_APPLICATION_OVERRIDES);
+        }
+
+        /*
+         * Merge in the System.properties to pick-up any command line arguments (-Dkeyword=value)
+         */
+        logger.info(Msg.MERGING_SYSTEM_PROPERTIES);
+        config.setProperties(System.getProperties());
+
+        /*
+         * As a convenience, copy the "specialProperties" that are not defined in System.properties
+         * from the configuration back to the system properties object.
+         */
+        for (String key : config.getProperties().stringPropertyNames()) {
+            for (String specialProperty : specialProperties) {
+                if (key.equals(specialProperty) && !System.getProperties().containsKey(key)) {
+                    System.setProperty(key, config.getProperty(key));
+                    logger.info(Msg.SETTING_SPECIAL_PROPERTY, key, config.getProperty(key));
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        /*
+         * Initialize the resource manager by loading the requested bundles, if any are defined.
+         * Resource bundles may be specified as a comma-delimited list of names. These resource
+         * names are base names of resource bundles, do not include the language or country code, or
+         * the ".properties" extension. The actual loading of the resource bundles is done lazily
+         * when requested the first time. If the bundle does not exist, or cannot be loaded, it is
+         * ignored.
+         */
+        String resourcesList = config.getProperty(Configuration.PROPERTY_RESOURCE_BUNDLES,
+                Configuration.DEFAULT_RESOURCE_BUNDLES);
+        String[] resources = resourcesList.split(",");
+        for (String resource : resources) {
+            logger.info(Msg.LOADING_RESOURCE_BUNDLE, resource.trim());
+            EELFResourceManager.loadMessageBundle(resource.trim());
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/configuration/DefaultConfiguration.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/configuration/DefaultConfiguration.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..635110cf0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/configuration/DefaultConfiguration.java
@@ -0,0 +1,564 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+package org.onap.appc.configuration;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.net.URL;
+import java.security.CodeSource;
+import java.security.ProtectionDomain;
+import java.security.Provider;
+import java.security.Provider.Service;
+import java.security.Security;
+import java.util.Map.Entry;
+import java.util.Properties;
+import java.util.jar.JarFile;
+import java.util.jar.Manifest;
+import java.util.regex.Matcher;
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
+import org.onap.appc.encryption.EncryptionTool;
+import org.onap.appc.util.UnmodifiableProperties;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+/**
+ * This class provides the implementation of the <code>Configuration</code> interface. It is created
+ * by the ConfigurationFactory and initialized with the configuration values for the process.
+ *
+ * @since Mar 18, 2014
+ */
+public final class DefaultConfiguration implements Configuration, Cloneable {
+
+    private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(DefaultConfiguration.class);
+
+    /**
+     * The framework configuration properties.
+     */
+    private Properties properties = new Properties();
+
+    /**
+     * Construct the configuration object.
+     */
+    DefaultConfiguration() {}
+
+    /**
+     * Clears all properties
+     */
+    public void clear() {
+        properties.clear();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see java.lang.Object#clone()
+     */
+    @Override
+    protected Object clone() throws CloneNotSupportedException {
+        DefaultConfiguration clone = (DefaultConfiguration) super.clone();
+
+        clone.properties = new Properties(this.properties);
+        clone.properties.putAll(this.properties);
+
+        return clone;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Decrypts an encrypted value, if it is encrypted, and returns the clear text. Performs no
+     * operation on the string if it is not encrypted.
+     *
+     * @param value The value to (optionally) be decrypted
+     * @return The clear text
+     */
+    @SuppressWarnings("nls")
+    private static String decrypt(String value) {
+        if (value != null && value.startsWith(EncryptionTool.ENCRYPTED_VALUE_PREFIX)) {
+            try {
+                return EncryptionTool.getInstance().decrypt(value);
+            } catch (Exception e) {
+                StringBuilder out = new StringBuilder();
+                for (Provider p : Security.getProviders()) {
+                    for (Service s : p.getServices()) {
+                        String algo = s.getAlgorithm();
+                        out.append(String.format(
+                                "\n==Found Algorithm [ %s ] in provider [ %s ] and service [ %s ]",
+                                algo, p.getName(), s.getClassName()));
+                    }
+                }
+                logger.debug(out.toString());
+                logger.warn(String.format("Could not decrypt the configuration value [%s]", value),
+                        e);
+            }
+        }
+        return value;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Decrypts all elements in the properties object
+     */
+    private void decryptAllProperties() {
+        if (properties != null) {
+            for (Entry<Object, Object> e : properties.entrySet()) {
+                if (e.getValue() != null) {
+                    e.setValue(decrypt(e.getValue().toString()));
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see java.lang.Object#equals(java.lang.Object)
+     */
+    @Override
+    public boolean equals(Object obj) {
+
+        if (obj == null) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        if (this.getClass() != obj.getClass()) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        DefaultConfiguration other = (DefaultConfiguration) obj;
+
+        return (this.properties.size() == other.properties.size())
+                && (this.properties.entrySet().containsAll(other.properties.entrySet()))
+                && (other.properties.entrySet().containsAll(this.properties.entrySet()));
+
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This method will use the properties object to expand any variables that may be present in the
+     * template provided. Variables are represented by the string "${name}", where "name" is the
+     * name of a property defined in either the current configuration object, or system properties
+     * if undefined. If the value cannot be found, the variable is removed and an empty string is
+     * used to replace the variable.
+     *
+     * @param template The template to be expanded
+     * @return The expanded template where each variable is replaced with its value
+     */
+    @SuppressWarnings("nls")
+    private String expandVariables(String template) {
+        if (template == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+
+        // Decrypt the template if needed
+        // template = decrypt(template); DH: Do not assign values to parameters, bad form! Also,
+        // Sonar complains
+        // bitterly
+
+        StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(decrypt(template));
+        Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("\\$\\{([^\\}]+)\\}");
+        Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(builder);
+        while (matcher.find()) {
+            String variable = matcher.group(1);
+            String value = properties.getProperty(variable);
+            if (value == null) {
+                value = System.getProperty(variable);
+            }
+            if (value == null) {
+                value = "";
+            }
+            builder.replace(matcher.start(), matcher.end(), value);
+
+            matcher.reset();
+        }
+        return builder.toString().trim();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This method is called to obtain a property expressed as a boolean value (true or false). The
+     * standard rules for Boolean.parseBoolean() are used.
+     *
+     * @param key The property key
+     * @return The value of the property expressed as a boolean, or false if it does not exist.
+     */
+    @SuppressWarnings("nls")
+    @Override
+    public boolean getBooleanProperty(String key) {
+        return Boolean.valueOf(getProperty(key, "false"));
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This method is called to obtain a property expressed as a boolean value (true or false). The
+     * standard rules for Boolean.valueOf(String) are used.
+     *
+     * @param key The property key
+     * @param defaultValue The default value to be returned if the property does not exist
+     * @return The value of the property expressed as a boolean, or false if it does not exist.
+     * @see org.onap.appc.configuration.Configuration#getBooleanProperty(java.lang.String, boolean)
+     */
+    @Override
+    public boolean getBooleanProperty(String key, boolean defaultValue) {
+        if (isPropertyDefined(key)) {
+            return getBooleanProperty(key);
+        }
+        return defaultValue;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the indicated property value expressed as a floating point double-precision value
+     * (double).
+     *
+     * @param key The property to retrieve
+     * @return The value of the property, or 0.0 if not found
+     * @see org.onap.appc.configuration.Configuration#getDoubleProperty(java.lang.String)
+     */
+    @SuppressWarnings("nls")
+    @Override
+    public double getDoubleProperty(String key) {
+        try {
+            return Double.valueOf(getProperty(key, "0.0"));
+        } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
+            return 0.0;
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This method is called to obtain a property as a string value
+     *
+     * @param key The key of the property
+     * @param defaultValue The default value to be returned if the property does not exist
+     * @return The string value, or null if it does not exist.
+     * @see org.onap.appc.configuration.Configuration#getDoubleProperty(java.lang.String, double)
+     */
+    @Override
+    public double getDoubleProperty(String key, double defaultValue) {
+        if (isPropertyDefined(key)) {
+            return getDoubleProperty(key);
+        }
+        return defaultValue;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the property indicated expressed as an integer. The standard rules for
+     * {@link Integer#parseInt(String, int)} using a radix of 10 are used.
+     *
+     * @param key The property name to retrieve.
+     * @return The value of the property, or 0 if it does not exist or is invalid.
+     * @see org.onap.appc.configuration.Configuration#getIntegerProperty(java.lang.String)
+     */
+    @SuppressWarnings("nls")
+    @Override
+    public int getIntegerProperty(String key) {
+        try {
+            return Integer.parseInt(getProperty(key, "0"), 10);
+        } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
+            return 0;
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the property indicated expressed as an integer. The standard rules for
+     * Integer.parseInt(String, int) using a radix of 10 are used.
+     *
+     * @param key The property name to retrieve.
+     * @param defaultValue The default value to be returned if the property does not exist
+     * @return The value of the property, or 0 if it does not exist or is invalid.
+     * @see org.onap.appc.configuration.Configuration#getIntegerProperty(java.lang.String, int)
+     */
+    @Override
+    public int getIntegerProperty(String key, int defaultValue) {
+        if (isPropertyDefined(key)) {
+            return getIntegerProperty(key);
+        }
+        return defaultValue;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the specified property as a long integer value, if it exists, or zero if it does not.
+     *
+     * @param key The key of the property desired.
+     * @return The value of the property expressed as an integer long value, or zero if the property
+     *         does not exist or is not a valid integer long.
+     * @see org.onap.appc.configuration.Configuration#getLongProperty(java.lang.String)
+     */
+    @SuppressWarnings("nls")
+    @Override
+    public long getLongProperty(String key) {
+        try {
+            return Long.parseLong(getProperty(key, "0"), 10);
+        } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
+            return 0;
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the specified property as a long integer value, if it exists, or the default value if
+     * it does not exist or is invalid.
+     *
+     * @param key The key of the property desired.
+     * @param defaultValue the value to be returned if the property is not valid or does not exist.
+     * @return The value of the property expressed as an integer long value, or the default value if
+     *         the property does not exist or is not a valid integer long.
+     * @see org.onap.appc.configuration.Configuration#getLongProperty(java.lang.String, long)
+     */
+    @Override
+    public long getLongProperty(String key, long defaultValue) {
+        if (isPropertyDefined(key)) {
+            return getLongProperty(key);
+        }
+        return defaultValue;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This method can be called to retrieve a properties object that is immutable. Any attempt to
+     * modify the properties object returned will result in an exception. This allows a caller to
+     * view the current configuration as a set of properties.
+     *
+     * @return An unmodifiable properties object.
+     * @see org.onap.appc.configuration.Configuration#getProperties()
+     */
+    @Override
+    public Properties getProperties() {
+        return new UnmodifiableProperties(properties);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This method is called to obtain a property as a string value
+     *
+     * @param key The key of the property
+     * @return The string value, or null if it does not exist.
+     */
+    @Override
+    public String getProperty(String key) {
+        String value = properties.getProperty(key);
+        if (value == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+        return expandVariables(value.trim());
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This method is called to obtain a property as a string value
+     *
+     * @param key The key of the property
+     * @param defaultValue The default value to be returned if the property does not exist
+     * @return The string value, or null if it does not exist.
+     * @see org.onap.appc.configuration.Configuration#getProperty(java.lang.String,
+     *      java.lang.String)
+     */
+    @Override
+    public String getProperty(String key, String defaultValue) {
+        if (isPropertyDefined(key)) {
+            return getProperty(key);
+        }
+
+        if (defaultValue == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+
+        return expandVariables(defaultValue.trim());
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see java.lang.Object#hashCode()
+     */
+    @Override
+    public int hashCode() {
+        return properties == null ? 0 : properties.hashCode();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns true if the named property is defined, false otherwise.
+     *
+     * @param key The key of the property we are interested in
+     * @return True if the property exists.
+     */
+    @Override
+    public boolean isPropertyDefined(String key) {
+        return properties.containsKey(key);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns an indication of the validity of the boolean property. A boolean property is
+     * considered to be valid only if it has the value "true" or "false" (ignoring case).
+     *
+     * @param key The property to be checked
+     * @return True if the value is a boolean constant, or false if it does not exist or is not a
+     *         correct string
+     * @see org.onap.appc.configuration.Configuration#isValidBoolean(java.lang.String)
+     */
+    @SuppressWarnings("nls")
+    @Override
+    public boolean isValidBoolean(String key) {
+        String value = getProperty(key);
+        if (value != null) {
+            value = value.toLowerCase();
+            return value.matches("true|false");
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns an indication if the indicated property represents a valid double-precision floating
+     * point number.
+     *
+     * @param key The property to be examined
+     * @return True if the property is a valid representation of a double, or false if it does not
+     *         exist or contains illegal characters.
+     * @see org.onap.appc.configuration.Configuration#isValidDouble(java.lang.String)
+     */
+    @Override
+    public boolean isValidDouble(String key) {
+        String value = getProperty(key);
+        if (value != null) {
+            try {
+                Double.valueOf(value);
+                return true;
+            } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
+                return false;
+            }
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns an indication if the property is a valid integer value or not.
+     *
+     * @param key The key of the property to check
+     * @return True if the value is a valid integer string, or false if it does not exist or
+     *         contains illegal characters.
+     * @see org.onap.appc.configuration.Configuration#isValidInteger(java.lang.String)
+     */
+    @Override
+    public boolean isValidInteger(String key) {
+        String value = getProperty(key);
+        if (value != null) {
+            try {
+                Integer.parseInt(value.trim(), 10);
+                return true;
+            } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
+                return false;
+            }
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Determines is the specified property exists and is a valid representation of an integer long
+     * value.
+     *
+     * @param key The property to be checked
+     * @return True if the property is a valid representation of an integer long value, and false if
+     *         it either does not exist or is not valid.
+     * @see org.onap.appc.configuration.Configuration#isValidLong(java.lang.String)
+     */
+    @Override
+    public boolean isValidLong(String key) {
+        String value = getProperty(key);
+        if (value != null) {
+            try {
+                Long.parseLong(value.trim(), 10);
+                return true;
+            } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
+                return false;
+            }
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This method allows an implementation to load configuration properties that may override
+     * default values.
+     *
+     * @param is An input stream that contains the properties to be loaded
+     */
+    public void setProperties(InputStream is) {
+        try {
+            properties.load(is);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            logger.warn("setProperties with inputStream got exception", e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This method allows an implementation to load configuration properties that may override
+     * default values.
+     *
+     * @param props An optional Properties object to be merged into the configuration, replacing any
+     *        same-named properties.
+     * @see org.onap.appc.configuration.Configuration#setProperties(java.util.Properties)
+     */
+    @Override
+    public void setProperties(Properties props) {
+        properties.putAll(props);
+        decryptAllProperties();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This method allows a caller to insert a new property definition into the configuration
+     * object. This allows the application to adjust or add to the current configuration. If the
+     * property already exists, it is replaced with the new value.
+     *
+     * @param key The key of the property to be defined
+     * @param value The value of the property to be defined
+     * @see org.onap.appc.configuration.Configuration#setProperty(java.lang.String,
+     *      java.lang.String)
+     */
+    @Override
+    public void setProperty(String key, String value) {
+        properties.setProperty(key, decrypt(value));
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see java.lang.Object#toString()
+     */
+    @SuppressWarnings("nls")
+    @Override
+    public String toString() {
+        return String.format("Configuration: %d properties, keys:[%s]", properties.size(),
+                properties.keySet().toString());
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This is a helper method to read the manifest of the jar file that this class was loaded from.
+     * Note that this will only work if the code is packaged in a jar file. If it is an open
+     * deployment, such as under eclipse, this will not work and there is code added to detect that
+     * case.
+     *
+     * @return The manifest object from the jar file, or null if the code is not packaged in a jar
+     *         file.
+     */
+    @SuppressWarnings({"unused", "nls"})
+    private Manifest getManifest() {
+        ProtectionDomain domain = getClass().getProtectionDomain();
+        CodeSource source = domain.getCodeSource();
+        URL location = source.getLocation();
+        String path = location.getPath();
+        int index = path.indexOf('!');
+        if (index != -1) {
+            path = path.substring(0, index);
+        }
+        if (path.endsWith(".jar")) {
+            try (JarFile jar = new JarFile(location.getFile())) {
+                return jar.getManifest();
+            } catch (IOException e) {
+                logger.error("getManifest", e);
+            }
+        }
+
+        return null;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/configuration/package.html b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/configuration/package.html
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c6889da9a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/configuration/package.html
@@ -0,0 +1,174 @@
+<!--
+  ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+  ONAP : APPC
+  ================================================================================
+  Copyright (C) 2017 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+  ================================================================================
+  Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+  =============================================================================
+  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.
+  
+  ECOMP is a trademark and service mark of AT&T Intellectual Property.
+  ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+  -->
+
+<html>
+<head>
+<title>Configuration</title>
+</head>
+
+<body>
+  <p style="margin-left: 30.0px;">
+    CDP Configuration support is provided by a common framework to load
+    and manage configuration properties from multiple sources. The basic
+    concept is to load a set of default properties from a known resource
+    file located on the class path, and then override these defaults
+    with optional settings that can be provided by a user through either
+    additional property files or via the command line (as VM arguments).
+    The loading of defaults from a resource property file (named <strong>com/att/cdp/default.properties</strong>)
+    ensures that values are defined for properties the application needs
+    in order to operate.
+  </p>
+  <p style="margin-left: 30.0px;">
+    One of these default values that can be set is the name of the
+    property file that allows the user to supply settings, as well as
+    the path where the file can be found. In general, the default name
+    of the property file will be &quot;<strong>cdp.properties</strong>&quot;,
+    and the path that will be searched is &quot;<strong>${user.home};etc;../etc</strong>&quot;.
+    However, these values can be changed through the use of the
+    default.properties resource file. The property that specifies the
+    property file name is named <strong>com.att.cdp.bootstrap.file</strong>,
+    while the property named <strong>com.att.cdp.bootstrap.path</strong>
+    specifies the search path.
+  </p>
+  <p style="margin-left: 30.0px;">
+    After the default.properties are loaded, but prior to searching for
+    the application configuration file, the configuration factory checks
+    for properties <strong>com.att.cdp.bootstrap.path</strong> and <strong>com.att.cdp.bootstrap.file
+    </strong>in the System properties object (meaning they were set by the
+    command line). If these values are defined in the system properties
+    object, they are used. If not, these values are obtained from the
+    default properties just loaded. This allows the specification of
+    either the file name or path, or both, to be overridden during start
+    up by using command-line arguments.
+  </p>
+  <p style="margin-left: 30.0px;">The search path is scanned for the
+    first occurrence of the specified property file. The first
+    occurrence is loaded and scanning is stopped at that point. The
+    configuration factory does not load all occurrences it finds, only
+    the first occurrence it finds.</p>
+  <p style="margin-left: 30.0px;">The configuration properties are
+    loaded and processed according to a defined precedence order, such
+    that properties defined with a higher precedence override the same
+    property at a lower precedence. The precedence order is defined as
+    follows:</p>
+  <h2>Precedence Order</h2>
+  <ol>
+    <li>Default properties are initially loaded into the
+      configuration. These default properties are the lowest level
+      precedence, and will be overridden by any properties specified at
+      higher levels. These are loaded from resources that are packaged
+      as part of the various application components. Each component
+      (Server, Coordinator, EPM, or CLI) may have different default
+      properties. The default properties are loaded from a resource
+      named <strong>com/att/cdp/default.properties</strong>. The default
+      properties can specify the name of the application property file
+      to be used to configure the application, as well as the path to
+      search. Additionally, these properties can be supplied via the
+      command line to override the default settings if needed.<br /> <br />
+    </li>
+    <li>The configuration factory allows for the application to
+      supply an initial properties object to initialize the
+      configuration. This properties object could be loaded or created
+      in any way necessary for the application. This is totally up to
+      the application to define, if it is needed. If no
+      application-specific property object is supplied, this step is
+      skipped. If a property object is supplied, it is used to replace
+      or set any properties that may have been defined by the defaults.<br />
+      <br />
+    </li>
+    <li>The configuration factory will then search for a bootstrap
+      file on a bootstrap path. The actual bootstrap file name and path
+      can be specified as properties on the command line, or will
+      default to a file name of <strong>cdp.properties</strong> and a
+      path of <strong>${user.home};etc;../etc</strong>. If desired, the
+      user can specify the exact name of the property file to be loaded
+      as well as the path using <strong>-Dcom.att.cdp.bootstrap.file=&lt;filename&gt;</strong>
+      and <strong>-Dcom.att.cdp.bootstrap.path=&lt;path&gt;</strong>.
+      These properties are set to default values by the default
+      properties loaded in step #1 above. The first occurrence of a
+      property file is the file loaded and used. Any other occurrences
+      are not processed.<br /> <br />
+    </li>
+    <li>The System properties are then merged into the
+      configuration. This allows the highest level of precedence,
+      command-line VM arguments (-D<strong>name=value</strong>) to be
+      merged into the configuration property object. These settings
+      override all lower level settings of the same name, as well as
+      merge all system properties into the configuration object.
+    </li>
+  </ol>
+  <h2>Variables</h2>
+  <p style="margin-left: 30.0px;">
+    The configuration support allows for variables to be inserted into
+    any property that is defined. Variables are named using the format <strong>${name}</strong>,
+    where the &quot;name&quot; is the name of a property that is defined
+    in the configuration, or a system property (such as <strong>user.home</strong>).
+    Variables can nest, such that a variable can be replaced with
+    another variable, which is then reevaluated to obtain the value.
+    This allows for indirection as well as variable substitution, if
+    needed.
+  </p>
+  <h2>Using the Configuration Support</h2>
+  <p style="margin-left: 30.0px;">
+    The configuration support was designed to be easy to use. The
+    configuration implementation is abstracted away from the application
+    so that it could be changed easily in the future if needed, or if we
+    needed to load different implementations for different reasons. This
+    means that the application always accesses the configuration through
+    an interface, named <strong>Configuration</strong>. The
+    implementation of that configuration interface is obtained by a
+    static method on the <strong>ConfigurationFactory</strong> class.
+    The configuration factory will both create the configuration if not
+    already created on the first access, as well as return the current
+    configuration if already created. Additionally, the
+    ConfigurationFactory provides mechanisms to recreate the
+    configuration after the application is initialized should the need
+    arise to update its configuration.
+  </p>
+  <p style="margin-left: 30.0px;">An example of the code needed to
+    obtain access to the configuration is:</p>
+  <pre style="margin-left: 30.0px;">Configuration config = ConfigurationFactory.getConfiguration();</pre>
+  <p style="margin-left: 30.0px;">Please refer to the javadoc or the
+    source code in cdp-common for other ways that the configuration and
+    configuration factory can be used.</p>
+  <h2>Reloading Properties</h2>
+  <p style="margin-left: 30.0px;">The configuration support allows
+    for properties to be re-loaded and re-evaluated after the
+    application is running. This is designed to allow a configuration to
+    be refreshed should the need arise. This could allow on-demand
+    refresh (via a command, for example), or automatically based on
+    sensing a change in the configuration file.</p>
+  <p style="margin-left: 30.0px;">
+    When the <strong>ConfigurationFactory</strong> method <strong>getConfiguration(Propert</strong><strong>ies)</strong>
+    is called, the current configuration is cleared and rebuilt using
+    the process defined above. The supplied property object is used in
+    step #2 of the process. While the properties are being re-built, no
+    access to the properties are allowed. Any attempt to access
+    properties while the re-build operation is in effect will block the
+    caller until completed. This is accomplished using read and write
+    shared locks.
+  </p>
+</body>
+</html>
+>>>>>>> app-controller/master:appc-common/src/main/java/org/onap/appc/configuration/package.html
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/encryption/EncryptionException.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/encryption/EncryptionException.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..804fe6a56
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/encryption/EncryptionException.java
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+package org.onap.appc.encryption;
+
+public class EncryptionException extends Exception {
+
+    public EncryptionException(String message) {
+        super(message);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/encryption/EncryptionTool.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/encryption/EncryptionTool.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..480b15e06
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/encryption/EncryptionTool.java
@@ -0,0 +1,214 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+package org.onap.appc.encryption;
+
+import java.security.Provider;
+import java.security.Provider.Service;
+import java.security.Security;
+
+import javax.crypto.Cipher;
+
+import org.jasypt.contrib.org.apache.commons.codec_1_3.binary.Base64;
+import org.jasypt.util.text.BasicTextEncryptor;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+/**
+ * This class is used to encapsulate the encryption and decryption support in one place and to provide a utility to
+ * encrypt and decrypt data.
+ */
+public class EncryptionTool {
+
+    /**
+     * This lock object is used ONLY if the singleton has not been set up.
+     */
+    private static final Object lock = new Object();
+
+    /**
+     * The salt is used to initialize the PBE (password Based Encrpytion) algorithm.
+     */
+    private static final byte[] DEFAULT_SALT = {
+        (byte) 0xc7, (byte) 0x73, (byte) 0x21, (byte) 0x8c, (byte) 0x7e, (byte) 0xc8, (byte) 0xee, (byte) 0x99
+    };
+
+    /**
+     * The prefix we insert onto any data we encrypt so that we can tell if it is encrpyted later and therefore decrypt
+     * it
+     */
+    @SuppressWarnings("nls")
+    public static final String ENCRYPTED_VALUE_PREFIX = "enc:";
+
+    /**
+     * The instance of the encryption utility object
+     */
+    private static EncryptionTool instance = null;
+
+    /**
+     * The iteration count used to initialize the PBE algorithm and to generate the key spec
+     */
+    private static final int ITERATION_COUNT = 20;
+
+    /**
+     * The logger for this class.
+     */
+    private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(EncryptionTool.class);
+
+    /**
+     * The secret passphrase (PBE) that we use to perform encryption and decryption. The algorithm we are using is a
+     * symmetrical cipher.
+     */
+    private static char[] secret = {
+        'C', '_', 'z', 'l', '!', 'K', '!', '4', '?', 'O', 'z', 'E', 'K', 'E', '>', 'U', 'R', '/', '%', 'Y', '\\', 'f',
+        'b', '"', 'e', 'n', '{', '"', 'l', 'U', 'F', '+', 'E', '\'', 'R', 'T', 'p', '1', 'V', '4', 'l', 'a', '9', 'w',
+        'v', '5', 'Z', '#', 'i', 'V', '"', 'd', 'l', '!', 'L', 'M', 'g', 'L', 'Q', '{', 'v', 'v', 'K', 'V'
+    };
+
+    /**
+     * The algorithm to encrypt and decrpyt data is "Password (or passphrase) Based Encryption with Message Digest #5
+     * and the Data Encryption Standard", i.e., PBEWithMD5AndDES.
+     */
+    @SuppressWarnings("nls")
+    private static final String SECURITY_ALGORITHM = "PBEWITHMD5AND256BITAES";// "PBEWithMD5AndDES";
+
+    /**
+     * The decryption cipher object
+     */
+    private Cipher decryptCipher = null;
+
+    /**
+     * The encryption cipher object
+     */
+    private Cipher encryptCipher = null;
+
+    private BasicTextEncryptor encryptor;
+
+    /**
+     * Get an instance of the EncryptionTool
+     *
+     * @return The encryption tool to be used
+     */
+    public static final EncryptionTool getInstance() {
+        if (instance == null) {
+            synchronized (lock) {
+                if (instance == null) {
+                    instance = new EncryptionTool();
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return instance;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Create the EncryptionTool instance
+     */
+    @SuppressWarnings("nls")
+    private EncryptionTool() {
+        String out = "Found the following security algorithms:";
+        for (Provider p : Security.getProviders()) {
+            for (Service s : p.getServices()) {
+                String algo = s.getAlgorithm();
+                out +=
+                    String.format("%n  -Algorithm [ %s ] in provider [ %s ] and service [ %s ]", algo, p.getName(),
+                        s.getClassName());
+            }
+        }
+        LOG.debug(out);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Decrypt the provided encrypted text
+     *
+     * @param cipherText
+     *            THe cipher text to be decrypted. If the ciphertext is not encrypted, then it is returned as is.
+     * @return the clear test of the (possibly) encrypted value. The original value if the string is not encrypted.
+     */
+    @SuppressWarnings("nls")
+    public synchronized String decrypt(String cipherText) {
+        if (isEncrypted(cipherText)) {
+            String encValue = cipherText.substring(ENCRYPTED_VALUE_PREFIX.length());
+            byte[] plainByte = Base64.decodeBase64(encValue.getBytes());
+            byte[] decryptByte = xorWithSecret(plainByte);
+            return new String(decryptByte);
+        } else {
+            return cipherText;
+        }
+
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Encrypt the provided clear text
+     *
+     * @param clearText
+     *            The clear text to be encrypted
+     * @return the encrypted text. If the clear text is empty (null or zero length), then an empty string is returned.
+     *         If the clear text is already encrypted, it is not encrypted again and is returned as is. Otherwise, the
+     *         clear text is encrypted and returned.
+     */
+    @SuppressWarnings("nls")
+    public synchronized String encrypt(String clearText) {
+        if (clearText != null) {
+            byte[] encByte = xorWithSecret(clearText.getBytes());
+            String encryptedValue = new String(Base64.encodeBase64(encByte));
+            return ENCRYPTED_VALUE_PREFIX + encryptedValue;
+        } else {
+            return null;
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Is a value encrypted? A value is considered to be encrypted if it begins with the
+     * {@linkplain #ENCRYPTED_VALUE_PREFIX encrypted value prefix}.
+     *
+     * @param value
+     *            the value to check.
+     * @return true/false;
+     */
+    private static boolean isEncrypted(final String value) {
+        return value != null && value.startsWith(ENCRYPTED_VALUE_PREFIX);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * XORs the input byte array with the secret key, padding 0x0 to the end of the secret key if the input is longer
+     * and returns a byte array the same size as input
+     *
+     * @param inp
+     *            The byte array to be XORed with secret
+     * @return A byte array the same size as inp or null if input is null.
+     */
+    private byte[] xorWithSecret(byte[] inp) {
+        if (inp == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+
+        byte[] secretBytes = new String(secret).getBytes();
+        int size = inp.length;
+
+        byte[] out = new byte[size];
+        for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
+            out[i] = (byte) ((inp[i]) ^ (secretBytes[i % secretBytes.length]));
+        }
+        return out;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/encryption/HexHelper.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/encryption/HexHelper.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9e975f84d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/encryption/HexHelper.java
@@ -0,0 +1,162 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+package org.onap.appc.encryption;
+
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+/**
+ * HexHelper utility used for encryption/decryption
+ */
+public final class HexHelper {
+
+    @SuppressWarnings({
+        "javadoc", "nls"
+    })
+    public static final String CM_PATH = "@(#) [viewpath]/[item]";
+
+    @SuppressWarnings({
+        "nls", "javadoc"
+    })
+    public static final String CM_PROJECT = "@(#) [environment] [baseline]";
+
+    @SuppressWarnings({
+        "javadoc", "nls"
+    })
+    public static final String CM_VERSION = "@(#) [version] [crtime]";
+
+    private static final char[] HEX_TABLE = {'0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D',
+        'E', 'F'};
+
+    /**
+     * The logger for this class.
+     */
+    private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(HexHelper.class);
+
+    private static Map<Character, Integer> textToHex;
+
+    static {
+        textToHex = new HashMap<>();
+        textToHex.put('0', 0);
+        textToHex.put('1', 1);
+        textToHex.put('2', 2);
+        textToHex.put('3', 3);
+        textToHex.put('4', 4);
+        textToHex.put('5', 5);
+        textToHex.put('6', 6);
+        textToHex.put('7', 7);
+        textToHex.put('8', 8);
+        textToHex.put('9', 9);
+        textToHex.put('A', 10);
+        textToHex.put('B', 11);
+        textToHex.put('C', 12);
+        textToHex.put('D', 13);
+        textToHex.put('E', 14);
+        textToHex.put('F', 15);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Default private constructor prevents instantiation
+     */
+    private HexHelper() {
+        // no-op
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Converts an array of bytes to the equivalent string representation using hexadecimal notation
+     *
+     * @param bytes The bytes to be converted to a hexadecimal string
+     * @return The string representation
+     */
+    public static String convertBytesToHex(byte[] bytes) throws EncryptionException{
+
+        if (bytes == null)
+            throw new EncryptionException("Given byte array is null");
+
+        StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(bytes.length * 2);
+        for (byte aByte : bytes) {
+            char tempChar;
+            // Get the first 4 bits (high) Do bitwise logical AND to get rid of
+            // low nibble. Shift results to right by 4 and get char
+            // representation
+            tempChar = HEX_TABLE[(aByte & 0xf0) >>> 4];
+            builder.append(tempChar);
+
+            // Get the last 4 bits (low) Do bitwise logical AND to get rid of
+            // high nibble. Get char representation
+            tempChar = HEX_TABLE[aByte & 0x0f];
+            builder.append(tempChar);
+        }
+        return builder.toString();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Converts a hexadecimal string representation of a binary value to an array of bytes
+     *
+     * @param hexValue The hex representation string to be converted
+     * @return The array of bytes that contains the binary value
+     */
+    @SuppressWarnings("nls")
+    public static byte[] convertHexToBytes(String hexValue) throws EncryptionException {
+
+        if (hexValue ==null)
+            throw new EncryptionException("Given hex value is null");
+
+        byte[] bytes;
+        byte high;
+        byte low;
+        char hexChar;
+
+        StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(hexValue.toUpperCase());
+        if (builder.length() % 2 != 0) {
+            LOG.warn("Invalid HEX value length. The length of the value has to be a multiple of 2."
+                + " Prepending '0' value.");
+            builder.insert(0, '0');
+        }
+        int hexLength = builder.length();
+        int byteLength = hexLength / 2;
+
+        bytes = new byte[byteLength];
+        try {
+            for (int index = 0; index < hexLength; index += 2) {
+                hexChar = builder.charAt(index);
+                high = textToHex.get(hexChar).byteValue();
+                high = (byte) (high << 4);
+                hexChar = builder.charAt(index + 1);
+                low = textToHex.get(hexChar).byteValue();
+                high = (byte) (high | low);
+                bytes[index / 2] = high;
+            }
+        }
+        catch (NullPointerException e){
+            LOG.error("Given string contains not hexadecimal values", e);
+            throw new EncryptionException("Given string contains not hexadecimal values");
+        }
+
+        return bytes;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/exceptions/APPCException.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/exceptions/APPCException.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..90dfa6710
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/exceptions/APPCException.java
@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+package org.onap.appc.exceptions;
+
+/**
+ * This is a base class for all APPC defined exceptions.
+ */
+
+public class APPCException extends Exception {
+
+    /**
+     *
+     */
+    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs a new exception with null as its detail message. The cause is not initialized, and may subsequently be
+     * initialized by a call to initCause.
+     */
+    public APPCException() {
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs a new exception with the specified detail message. The cause is not initialized, and may subsequently
+     * be initialized by a call to initCause.
+     * 
+     * @param message
+     *            the detail message. The detail message is saved for later retrieval by the getMessage() method.
+     */
+    public APPCException(String message) {
+        super(message);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs a new exception with the specified cause and a detail message of (cause==null ? null :
+     * cause.toString()) (which typically contains the class and detail message of cause). This constructor is useful
+     * for exceptions that are little more than wrappers for other throwables (for example,
+     * java.security.PrivilegedActionException).
+     * 
+     * @param cause
+     *            the cause (which is saved for later retrieval by the getCause() method). (A null value is permitted,
+     *            and indicates that the cause is nonexistent or unknown.)
+     */
+    public APPCException(Throwable cause) {
+        super(cause);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * 
+     Constructs a new exception with the specified detail message and cause.
+     * <p>
+     * Note that the detail message associated with cause is not automatically incorporated in this exception's detail
+     * message.
+     * </p>
+     * 
+     * @param message
+     *            the detail message (which is saved for later retrieval by the getMessage() method).
+     * @param cause
+     *            the cause (which is saved for later retrieval by the getCause() method). (A null value is permitted,
+     *            and indicates that the cause is nonexistent or unknown.)
+     */
+    public APPCException(String message, Throwable cause) {
+        super(message, cause);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * 
+     Constructs a new exception with the specified detail message, cause, suppression enabled or disabled, and
+     * writable stack trace enabled or disabled.
+     * 
+     * @param message
+     *            the detail message.
+     * @param cause
+     *            the cause. (A null value is permitted, and indicates that the cause is nonexistent or unknown.)
+     * @param enableSuppression
+     *            whether or not suppression is enabled or disabled
+     * @param writableStackTrace
+     *            whether or not the stack trace should be writable
+     */
+    public APPCException(String message, Throwable cause, boolean enableSuppression, boolean writableStackTrace) {
+        super(message, cause, enableSuppression, writableStackTrace);
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/exceptions/InvalidInputException.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/exceptions/InvalidInputException.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..32a6cdef5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/exceptions/InvalidInputException.java
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+package org.onap.appc.exceptions;
+
+public class InvalidInputException extends Exception {
+    public InvalidInputException(String message){
+        super(message);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/exceptions/InvalidStateException.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/exceptions/InvalidStateException.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..61a8770a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/exceptions/InvalidStateException.java
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+package org.onap.appc.exceptions;
+
+public class InvalidStateException extends Exception {
+    public InvalidStateException(String message) {
+        super(message);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/exceptions/UnknownProviderException.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/exceptions/UnknownProviderException.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d23c8027b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/exceptions/UnknownProviderException.java
@@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+package org.onap.appc.exceptions;
+
+/**
+ * This exception indicates that the named provider could not be found or was unidentifiable.
+ */
+public class UnknownProviderException extends APPCException {
+
+    /**
+    *
+    */
+   private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
+
+   /**
+    * Constructs a new exception with null as its detail message. The cause is not initialized, and may subsequently be
+    * initialized by a call to initCause.
+    */
+   public UnknownProviderException() {
+   }
+
+   /**
+    * Constructs a new exception with the specified detail message. The cause is not initialized, and may subsequently
+    * be initialized by a call to initCause.
+    * 
+    * @param message
+    *            the detail message. The detail message is saved for later retrieval by the getMessage() method.
+    */
+   public UnknownProviderException(String message) {
+       super(message);
+   }
+
+   /**
+    * Constructs a new exception with the specified cause and a detail message of (cause==null ? null :
+    * cause.toString()) (which typically contains the class and detail message of cause). This constructor is useful
+    * for exceptions that are little more than wrappers for other throwables (for example,
+    * java.security.PrivilegedActionException).
+    * 
+    * @param cause
+    *            the cause (which is saved for later retrieval by the getCause() method). (A null value is permitted,
+    *            and indicates that the cause is nonexistent or unknown.)
+    */
+   public UnknownProviderException(Throwable cause) {
+       super(cause);
+   }
+
+   /**
+    * 
+    Constructs a new exception with the specified detail message and cause.
+    * <p>
+    * Note that the detail message associated with cause is not automatically incorporated in this exception's detail
+    * message.
+    * </p>
+    * 
+    * @param message
+    *            the detail message (which is saved for later retrieval by the getMessage() method).
+    * @param cause
+    *            the cause (which is saved for later retrieval by the getCause() method). (A null value is permitted,
+    *            and indicates that the cause is nonexistent or unknown.)
+    */
+   public UnknownProviderException(String message, Throwable cause) {
+       super(message, cause);
+   }
+
+   /**
+    * 
+    Constructs a new exception with the specified detail message, cause, suppression enabled or disabled, and
+    * writable stack trace enabled or disabled.
+    * 
+    * @param message
+    *            the detail message.
+    * @param cause
+    *            the cause. (A null value is permitted, and indicates that the cause is nonexistent or unknown.)
+    * @param enableSuppression
+    *            whether or not suppression is enabled or disabled
+    * @param writableStackTrace
+    *            whether or not the stack trace should be writable
+    */
+   public UnknownProviderException(String message,
+                                   Throwable cause,
+                                   boolean enableSuppression,
+                                   boolean writableStackTrace) {
+       super(message, cause, enableSuppression, writableStackTrace);
+   }
+
+}
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/i18n/Msg.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/i18n/Msg.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d60e25938
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/i18n/Msg.java
@@ -0,0 +1,842 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+package org.onap.appc.i18n;
+
+import com.att.eelf.i18n.EELFResolvableErrorEnum;
+import com.att.eelf.i18n.EELFResourceManager;
+
+/**
+ * The messages issued by APPC components.
+ * <p>
+ * This message definition is shared by all APPC components.
+ * </p>
+ *
+ */
+@SuppressWarnings("nls")
+public enum Msg implements EELFResolvableErrorEnum {
+
+    /**
+     * ECOMP Application Controller (APP-C) initialization started at {0}
+     */
+    CONFIGURATION_STARTED,
+
+    /**
+     * Prior configuration has been cleared
+     */
+    CONFIGURATION_CLEARED,
+
+    /**
+     * Loading configuration properties from file "{0}"
+     */
+    LOADING_CONFIGURATION_OVERRIDES,
+
+    /**
+     * Configuration defaults loaded from resource file "{0}"
+     */
+    LOADING_DEFAULTS,
+
+    /**
+     * No default property resource "{0}" was found!
+     */
+    NO_DEFAULTS_FOUND,
+
+    /**
+     * Property "{0}" ="{1}"
+     */
+    PROPERTY_VALUE,
+
+    /**
+     * No configuration file named [{0}] was found on the configuration search path [{1}]. \ If a configuration file
+     * should have been loaded, check the file name and search path specified. CDP will proceed using the \ default
+     * values and command-line overrides (if any).
+     */
+    NO_OVERRIDE_PROPERTY_FILE_LOADED,
+
+    /**
+     * Searching path "{0}" for configuration settings "{1}"
+     */
+    SEARCHING_CONFIGURATION_OVERRIDES,
+
+    /**
+     * Loading application-specific override properties
+     */
+    LOADING_APPLICATION_OVERRIDES,
+
+    /**
+     * No application-specific override properties were provided!
+     */
+    NO_APPLICATION_OVERRIDES,
+
+    /**
+     * Merging system properties into configuration
+     */
+    MERGING_SYSTEM_PROPERTIES,
+
+    /**
+     * Setting property "{0}={1}" in system properties
+     */
+    SETTING_SPECIAL_PROPERTY,
+
+    /**
+     * Loading resource bundle "{0}"
+     */
+    LOADING_RESOURCE_BUNDLE,
+
+    /**
+     * Logging has already been initialized, check the container logging definitions to ensure they represent your
+     * desired logging configuration.
+     */
+    LOGGING_ALREADY_INITIALIZED,
+
+    /**
+     * Searching path "{0}" for log configuration file "{1}"
+     */
+    SEARCHING_LOG_CONFIGURATION,
+
+    /**
+     * Loading default logging configuration from system resource file "{0}"
+     */
+    LOADING_DEFAULT_LOG_CONFIGURATION,
+
+    /**
+     * No log configuration could be found or defaulted!
+     */
+    NO_LOG_CONFIGURATION,
+
+    /**
+     * An unsupported logging framework is bound to SLF4J. Only Logback or Log4J are supported.
+     */
+    UNSUPPORTED_LOGGING_FRAMEWORK,
+
+    /**
+     * Loading logging configuration from file "{0}"
+     */
+    LOADING_LOG_CONFIGURATION,
+
+    /**
+     * Provider {0} cannot be found or cannot be resolved to a valid provider.
+     */
+    UNKNOWN_PROVIDER,
+
+    /**
+     * Server name "{0}" with id "{1}" in tenant "{2}" and region "{3}" did not change state within the alloted time.
+     * Current state is "{4}" and the desired state(s) are "{5}"
+     */
+    SERVER_STATE_CHANGE_TIMEOUT,
+
+    /**
+     * Server name "{0}" with id "{1}" in tenant "{2}" has a state of deleted and cannot be {3}.
+     */
+    SERVER_DELETED,
+
+    /**
+     * Server name "{0}" with id "{1}" in tenant "{2}" has an unknown state of "{3}".
+     */
+    UNKNOWN_SERVER_STATE,
+
+    /**
+     * {0} component {1} is being initialized...
+     */
+    COMPONENT_INITIALIZING,
+
+    /**
+     * {0} component {1} has completed initialization
+     */
+    COMPONENT_INITIALIZED,
+
+    /**
+     * {0} component {1} is terminating...
+     */
+    COMPONENT_TERMINATING,
+
+    /**
+     * {0} component {1} has terminated
+     */
+    COMPONENT_TERMINATED,
+
+    /**
+     * Operation {0} is not supported or implemented at this time.
+     */
+    IAAS_ADAPTER_UNSUPPORTED_OPERATION,
+
+    /**
+     * Operation {0} called. Input document:\n{1}
+     */
+    IAAS_ADAPTER_RPC_CALLED,
+
+    /**
+     * Unable to locate the {0} service in the OSGi container
+     */
+    NO_SERVICE_FOUND,
+
+    /**
+     * Dump of context parameters for module {0}, RPC {1}, and version {2}
+     */
+    CONTEXT_PARAMETERS_DISPLAY,
+
+    /**
+     * Response properties from execution of module '{0}', RPC '{1}', and version '{2}' are:
+     */
+    RESPONSE_PARAMETERS_DISPLAY,
+
+    /**
+     * Service {0}:{1} was provided a null (empty) or invalid argument, '{2}' = '{3}'
+     */
+    NULL_OR_INVALID_ARGUMENT,
+
+    /**
+     * Service {0}:{1} is processing service '{2}' with request id '{3}'
+     */
+    PROCESSING_REQUEST,
+
+    /**
+     * Service {0}:{1} received request for service '{2}' but that service is invalid or unknown.
+     */
+    INVALID_SERVICE_REQUEST,
+
+    /**
+     * {0} registering service {1} using class {2}
+     */
+    REGISTERING_SERVICE,
+
+    /**
+     * {0} unregistering service {1}
+     */
+    UNREGISTERING_SERVICE,
+
+    /**
+     * {0} IAAS Adapter initializing provider {1} as {2}
+     */
+    LOADING_PROVIDER_DEFINITIONS,
+
+    /**
+     * {0} IAAS Adapter restart of server requested
+     */
+    RESTARTING_SERVER,
+
+    /**
+     * {0} IAAS Adapter rebuild of server requested
+     */
+    REBUILDING_SERVER,
+
+    /**
+     * {0} IAAS Adapter migrate of server requested
+     */
+    MIGRATING_SERVER,
+
+    /**
+     * {0} IAAS Adapter evacuate of server requested
+     */
+    EVACUATING_SERVER,
+
+    /**
+     * {0} IAAS Adapter create snapshot of server requested
+     */
+    SNAPSHOTING_SERVER,
+
+    /**
+     * {0} IAAS Adapter look for server requested
+     */
+    LOOKING_SERVER_UP,
+
+    /**
+     * {0} IAAS Adapter cannot perform requested service, VM url '{1}' is invalid
+     */
+    INVALID_SELF_LINK_URL,
+
+    /**
+     * Located server '{0}' on tenant '{1}' and in state '{2}'
+     */
+    SERVER_FOUND,
+
+    /**
+     * No server found in provider with self-link URL [{0}]
+     */
+    SERVER_NOT_FOUND,
+
+    /**
+     * Exception {0} was caught attempting {1} of server [{2}] on tenant [{3}]
+     */
+    SERVER_OPERATION_EXCEPTION,
+
+    /**
+     * One or more properties for [{0}] are missing, null, or empty. They are:
+     */
+    MISSING_REQUIRED_PROPERTIES,
+
+    /**
+     * The server [{0}] (id={1}) in tenant {2} is in error state, {3} is not allowed
+     */
+    SERVER_ERROR_STATE,
+
+    /**
+     * The image {0} could not be located for {1}
+     */
+    IMAGE_NOT_FOUND,
+
+    /**
+     * Time out waiting for {0} with name {1} (and id {2}) to reach one of {3} states, current state is {4}
+     */
+    STATE_CHANGE_TIMEOUT,
+
+    /**
+     * Exception {0} waiting for {1} with name {2} (and id {3}) to reach one of {4} states, current state is {5}
+     * cause={6}
+     */
+    STATE_CHANGE_EXCEPTION,
+
+    /**
+     * Server {0} is being stopped...
+     */
+    STOP_SERVER,
+
+    /**
+     * Server {0} is being started...
+     */
+    START_SERVER,
+
+    /**
+     * Server {0} is being resumed...
+     */
+    RESUME_SERVER,
+
+    /**
+     * Server {0} is being unpaused...
+     */
+    UNPAUSE_SERVER,
+
+    /**
+     * Server {0} is being rebuilt...
+     */
+    REBUILD_SERVER,
+
+    /**
+     * Connection to provider {0} at identity {1} using tenant name {2} (id {3}) failed, reason={4}, retrying in {5}
+     * seconds, attempt {6} of {7}.
+     */
+    CONNECTION_FAILED_RETRY,
+
+    /**
+     * Connection to provider {0} at service {1} failed after all retry attempts.
+     */
+    CONNECTION_FAILED,
+
+    /**
+     * {0} IAAS Adapter stop server requested
+     */
+    STOPPING_SERVER,
+
+    /**
+     * {0} IAAS Adapter start server requested
+     */
+    STARTING_SERVER,
+
+    /**
+     * Server {0} (id {1}) failed to rebuild, reason {2}
+     */
+    REBUILD_SERVER_FAILED,
+
+    /**
+     * Application {0} graph {1} response did not set the {2} parameter. This parameter is required for synchronization
+     * with the controller. Absence of this parameter is assumed to be a failure. Please correct the DG.
+     */
+    PARAMETER_IS_MISSING,
+
+    /**
+     * Application {0} graph {1} did not set parameter {2} to a valid numeric value ({3}). Please correct the DG.
+     */
+    PARAMETER_NOT_NUMERIC,
+
+    /**
+     * Application {0} graph {1} completed with failure: error code = {2}, message = {3}
+     */
+    DG_FAILED_RESPONSE,
+
+    /**
+     * Application {0} received exception {1} attempting to call graph {2}, exception message = {3}
+     */
+    EXCEPTION_CALLING_DG,
+
+    /**
+     * Application {0} was unable to locate graph {1}
+     */
+    GRAPH_NOT_FOUND,
+
+    /**
+     * Application {0} graph {1} responded with {3} properties
+     */
+    DEBUG_GRAPH_RESPONSE_HEADER,
+
+    /**
+     * {0}:{1} - {2} = {3}
+     */
+    DEBUG_GRAPH_RESPONSE_DETAIL,
+
+    /**
+     * Application {0} request {1} was supplied a property '{2}' with the value '{3}' that does not meet the required
+     * form(s):
+     */
+    INVALID_REQUIRED_PROPERTY,
+
+    /**
+     * Server {0} (id {1}) failed to migrate during {2} phase, reason {3}
+     */
+    MIGRATE_SERVER_FAILED,
+
+    /**
+     * Server {0} (id {1}) failed to evacuate, reason {2}
+     */
+    EVACUATE_SERVER_FAILED,
+    
+    /**
+     * Server {0} evacuate from host {1} to host {2} failed during the rebuild on host {2}, reason {3}
+     */
+    EVACUATE_SERVER_REBUILD_FAILED,
+
+    /**
+     * APP-C instance is too busy
+     */
+    APPC_TOO_BUSY,
+
+    /**
+     * Concurrent access to server "{0}"
+     */
+    VF_SERVER_BUSY,
+
+    /**
+     * Server "{0}" does not support command "{1}" in the current state "{2}"
+     */
+    VF_ILLEGAL_COMMAND,
+
+    /**
+     * Server "{0}" cannot handle command "{1}" because of its doubtful state
+     */
+    VF_UNDEFINED_STATE,
+
+    /**
+     * No resource found with ID "{0}" in A&AI system
+     */
+    APPC_NO_RESOURCE_FOUND,
+
+    /**
+     * The request "{0}" for server "{1}" has exceeded its TTL limit of "{3}" seconds
+     */
+    APPC_EXPIRED_REQUEST,
+
+    /**
+     * Workflow for vnfType = "{0}" and command = "{1}" not found.
+     */
+    APPC_WORKFLOW_NOT_FOUND,
+
+    /**
+     * Null vnfId and command provided
+     */
+    APPC_INVALID_INPUT,
+
+    /**
+     * Operation '{0}' for VNF type '{1}' from Source '{2}' with RequestID '{3}' was started at '{4}' and ended at '{5}'
+     * with status code '{6}'
+     */
+    APPC_AUDIT_MSG,
+
+    /**
+     * APP-C is unable to communicate with A&AI
+     */
+    AAI_CONNECTION_FAILED,
+
+    /**
+     * APP-C is unable to update COMPONENT_ID {0} to {1} for reason {2}
+     */
+    AAI_UPDATE_FAILED,
+
+    /**
+     * APP-C is unable to retrieve VF/VFC {0} data for Transaction ID{1}as a result of A&AI communication failure or its
+     * internal error.
+     */
+    AAI_GET_DATA_FAILED,
+
+    /**
+     * A&AI at identity {0} using VNF_ID {1} failed, reason={2}, retrying in {3} seconds, attempt {4} of {5}
+     */
+    AAI_CONNECTION_FAILED_RETRY,
+
+    /**
+     * APP-C is unable to delete COMPONENT_ID {0} for reason {1}
+     */
+    AAI_DELETE_FAILED,
+
+    /**
+     * APP-C is unable to query AAI for VNF_ID {0}
+     */
+    AAI_QUERY_FAILED,
+
+    /**
+     * VNF {0} is configured
+     */
+    VNF_CONFIGURED,
+
+    /**
+     * VNF {0} is being configured
+     */
+    VNF_CONFIGURATION_STARTED,
+
+    /**
+     * VNF {0} configuration failed for reason {1}
+     */
+    VNF_CONFIGURATION_FAILED,
+
+    /**
+     * VNF {0} is being tested
+     */
+    VNF_TEST_STARTED,
+
+    /**
+     * VNF {0} was tested
+     */
+    VNF_TESTED,
+
+    /**
+     * VNF {0} test failed for reason {1}
+     */
+    VNF_TEST_FAILED,
+
+    /**
+     * VNF {0} test failed for reason {1}
+     */
+    VNF_NOT_FOUND,
+
+    /**
+     * VNF {0} Healthcheck operation failed for reason {1}
+     */
+    VNF_HEALTHCECK_FAILED,
+
+    /**
+     * VM {0} Healthcheck operation failed for reason {1}
+     */
+    VM_HEALTHCECK_FAILED,
+
+    /**
+     * Server {0} (id {1}) failed to stop during {2} phase, reason {3}
+     */
+    STOP_SERVER_FAILED,
+
+    /**
+     * Server {0} (id {1}) failed to terminate during {2} phase, reason {3}
+     */
+    TERMINATE_SERVER_FAILED,
+
+    /**
+     * {0} IAAS Adapter terminate server requested
+     */
+    TERMINATING_SERVER,
+
+    /**
+     * Server {0} is being terminated...
+     */
+    TERMINATE_SERVER,
+
+    /**
+     * Migrate {0} finished with status {1}. Start Time: {2}. End Time: {3}. Request ID: {4}. Reason:{5}...
+     */
+    MIGRATE_COMPLETE,
+
+    /**
+     * Restart {0} finished with status {1}. Start Time: {2}. End Time: {3}. Request ID: {4}. Reason:{5}...
+     */
+    RESTART_COMPLETE,
+
+    /**
+     * Rebuild {0} finished with status {1}. Start Time: {2}. End Time: {3}. Request ID: {4}. Reason:{5}...
+     */
+    REBUILD_COMPLETE,
+
+    /**
+     * Located stack '{0}' on tenant '{1}' and in state '{2}'
+     */
+    STACK_FOUND,
+
+    /**
+     * {0} IAAS Adapter terminate stack requested
+     */
+
+    TERMINATING_STACK,
+
+    /**
+     * stack {0} is being terminated...
+     */
+    TERMINATE_STACK,
+    /**
+     * No stack found in provider with self-link URL [{0}]
+     */
+
+    STACK_NOT_FOUND,
+
+    /**
+     * Exception {0} was caught attempting {1} of stack [{2}] on tenant [{3}]
+     */
+    STACK_OPERATION_EXCEPTION,
+
+    /**
+     * Stack {0} (id {1}) failed to terminate during {2} phase, reason {3}
+     */
+
+    TERMINATE_STACK_FAILED,
+
+    /**
+     * Exception {0} was caught attempting to close provider context for {1}.
+     */
+
+    CLOSE_CONTEXT_FAILED,
+
+    /**
+     * {0} IAAS Adapter snapshoting stack
+     */
+    SNAPSHOTING_STACK,
+
+    /**
+     * Stack {0} snapshoted, snapshot ID = [{1}].
+     */
+    STACK_SNAPSHOTED,
+
+    /**
+     * {0} IAAS Adapter restoring stack
+     */
+    RESTORING_STACK,
+
+    /**
+     * Stack {0} is restored to snapshot {1}.
+     */
+    STACK_RESTORED,
+
+    /**
+     * {0} IAAS Adapter checking server
+     */
+    CHECKING_SERVER,
+
+    /**
+     * Parameter {0} is missing in svc request of {1}.
+     */
+    MISSING_PARAMETER_IN_REQUEST,
+
+    /**
+     * Cannot establish connection to server {0} port {1} with user {2}.
+     */
+    CANNOT_ESTABLISH_CONNECTION,
+
+    /**
+     * Operation '{0}' for VNF type '{1}' from Source '{2}' with RequestID '{3}' on '{4}' with action '{5}'
+     * ended in {6}ms with result '{7}'
+     */
+    APPC_METRIC_MSG,
+
+    /**
+     * Parsing failied for{0}
+     */
+    INPUT_PAYLOAD_PARSING_FAILED,
+
+    /**
+     * Error occurred for due to {0}
+     */
+    APPC_EXCEPTION,
+
+    /**
+     * SSH Data Exception occurred due to {0}
+     */
+    SSH_DATA_EXCEPTION,
+
+    /**
+     * Json processing exception occurred due to {0}
+     */
+    JSON_PROCESSING_EXCEPTION,
+
+   /**
+     * Operation {0} succeed for {1}
+     */
+    SUCCESS_EVENT_MESSAGE,
+
+    /**
+     * Dependency model not found for VNF type {0} due to {1}
+     */
+    DEPENDENCY_MODEL_NOT_FOUND,
+
+    /**
+     * Invalid Dependency model for VNF Type {0} due to {1}
+     */
+    INVALID_DEPENDENCY_MODEL,
+
+    /**
+     * Failed to retrieve VNFC DG
+     */
+    FAILURE_RETRIEVE_VNFC_DG,
+
+    /**
+     * Network check for Server {0} failed for Port {1}
+     *
+     */
+    SERVER_NETWORK_ERROR,
+
+    /**
+     * Hypervisor check for Server {0} failed. Status is DOWN or UNKNOWN
+     *
+     */
+    HYPERVISOR_DOWN_ERROR,
+    
+    /**
+     * Unable to determine Hypervisor status for Server {0}. failed.
+     *
+     */
+    HYPERVISOR_STATUS_UKNOWN,
+
+    /**
+     * Hypervisor Network check for Server {0} failed. Not reachable by APPC
+     *
+     */
+    HYPERVISOR_NETWORK_ERROR,
+
+    /**
+     * Restart application operation failed on server : {0}, reason {1}
+     */
+    APPLICATION_RESTART_FAILED,
+
+    /**
+     * Start application operation failed on server : {0}, reason {1}
+     */
+    APPLICATION_START_FAILED,
+
+    /**
+     * Start application operation failed on server : {0}, reason {1}
+     */
+    APPLICATION_STOP_FAILED,
+
+    /**
+     * Application on server {0} is being restarted...
+     */
+    RESTART_APPLICATION,
+
+    /**
+     * Application on server {0} is being started...
+     */
+    START_APPLICATION,
+
+    /**
+     * Application on server {0} is being started...
+     */
+    STOP_APPLICATION,
+
+    /**
+     * APPC LCM operations are disabled
+     */
+    LCM_OPERATIONS_DISABLED,
+
+    /**
+     * Application {0} received exception {1} while attempting to execute oam operation {2}, exception message = {3}|\
+     */
+    OAM_OPERATION_EXCEPTION,
+
+    /**
+     *   Application {0} is {1}
+     */
+    OAM_OPERATION_ENTERING_MAINTENANCE_MODE,
+
+    /**
+     * Application {0} is in {1}
+     */
+    OAM_OPERATION_MAINTENANCE_MODE,
+
+    /**
+     * Application {0} is {1}
+     */
+    OAM_OPERATION_STARTING,
+
+    /**
+     * Application {0} is {1}
+     */
+    OAM_OPERATION_STARTED,
+
+    /**
+     * Application {0} is {1}
+     */
+    OAM_OPERATION_STOPPING,
+
+    /**
+     * Application {0} is {1}
+     */
+    OAM_OPERATION_STOPPED,
+    /**
+     * A {1} API is not allowed when {0} is in the {2} state
+     */
+    INVALID_STATE_TRANSITION,
+
+    /**
+     * Application {0} was unable to find the Request Handler service
+     */
+    REQUEST_HANDLER_UNAVAILABLE,
+
+    /**
+     * Application {0} is {1}
+     */
+    OAM_OPERATION_RESTARTING,
+
+    /**
+     * Application {0} is {1} for restart
+     */
+    OAM_OPERATION_RESTARTED,
+
+    /**
+     * {0}
+     */
+    OAM_OPERATION_INVALID_INPUT,
+
+    ATTACHINGVOLUME_SERVER,
+
+    DETTACHINGVOLUME_SERVER,
+
+    /**
+     * Unsupported identity service version, unable to retrieve ServiceCatalog
+     * for identity service {0}
+     */
+    IAAS_UNSUPPORTED_IDENTITY_SERVICE,
+
+    /**
+     * Sftp data transfer failed on connection to host {0} with user {1} for {2} operation, reason : {3}
+     */
+    SFTP_TRANSFER_FAILED,
+
+    /**
+     * Ssh session with host {0} has timed out during command {1} execution
+     */
+    SSH_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT,
+
+    /**
+     * Could not configure existing ssh session, reason: {0}
+     */
+    SSH_SESSION_CONFIG_ERROR
+    ;
+    /*
+     * Static initializer to ensure the resource bundles for this class are loaded...
+     */
+    static {
+        EELFResourceManager.loadMessageBundle("org/onap/appc/i18n/MessageResources");
+    }
+}
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/logging/LoggingConstants.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/logging/LoggingConstants.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4178f6bcc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/logging/LoggingConstants.java
@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+package org.onap.appc.logging;
+
+/**
+ * Constant definition of logging
+ */
+public class LoggingConstants {
+    private LoggingConstants() {
+        throw new IllegalAccessError("LoggingConstants");
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Constants of MDC property keys
+     */
+    public static class MDCKeys {
+        private MDCKeys() {
+            throw new IllegalAccessError("MDCKeys");
+        }
+
+        public static final String ERROR_CODE = "ErrorCode";
+        public static final String ERROR_DESCRIPTION = "ErrorDescription";
+        public static final String STATUS_CODE = "StatusCode";
+        public static final String RESPONSE_CODE = "ResponseCode";
+        public static final String RESPONSE_DESCRIPTION = "ResponseDescription";
+        public static final String TARGET_ENTITY = "TargetEntity";
+        public static final String TARGET_SERVICE_NAME = "TargetServiceName";
+        public static final String PARTNER_NAME = "PartnerName";
+        public static final String SERVER_NAME = "ServerName";
+        public static final String BEGIN_TIMESTAMP = "BeginTimestamp";
+        public static final String END_TIMESTAMP = "EndTimestamp";
+        public static final String ELAPSED_TIME = "ElapsedTime";
+        public static final String CLASS_NAME = "ClassName";
+        public static final String TARGET_VIRTUAL_ENTITY = "TargetVirtualEntity";
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Constants of status code values
+     */
+    public static class StatusCodes {
+        private StatusCodes() {
+            throw new IllegalAccessError("StatusCodes");
+        }
+        public static final String COMPLETE = "COMPLETE";
+        public static final String ERROR = "ERROR";
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Constants of APPC target names
+     */
+    public static class TargetNames {
+        private TargetNames() {
+            throw new IllegalAccessError("TargetNames");
+        }
+        public static final String APPC = "APPC";
+        public static final String AAI = "A&AI";
+        public static final String DB = "DataBase";
+        public static final String APPC_PROVIDER = "APPC Provider";
+        public static final String APPC_OAM_PROVIDER = "APPC OAM Provider";
+        public static final String STATE_MACHINE = "StateMachine";
+        public static final String WORKFLOW_MANAGER = "WorkflowManager";
+        public static final String REQUEST_VALIDATOR = "RequestValidator";
+        public static final String LOCK_MANAGER = "LockManager";
+        public static final String REQUEST_HANDLER = "RequestHandler";
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Constants of targeted service names
+     */
+    public static class TargetServiceNames {
+        private TargetServiceNames() {
+            throw new IllegalAccessError("TargetServiceNames");
+        }
+
+        /**
+         * Constants of AAI service names
+         */
+        public static class AAIServiceNames {
+            private AAIServiceNames() {
+                throw new IllegalAccessError("AAIServiceNames");
+            }
+            public static final String QUERY = "query";
+            public static final String GET_VNF_DATA = "getVnfData";
+        }
+
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/logging/LoggingUtils.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/logging/LoggingUtils.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cfb98da9e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/logging/LoggingUtils.java
@@ -0,0 +1,235 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+package org.onap.appc.logging;
+
+import org.onap.appc.i18n.Msg;
+import com.att.eelf.configuration.EELFLogger;
+import com.att.eelf.configuration.EELFManager;
+import com.att.eelf.i18n.EELFResolvableErrorEnum;
+import com.att.eelf.i18n.EELFResourceManager;
+import org.slf4j.MDC;
+import static com.att.eelf.configuration.Configuration.MDC_KEY_REQUEST_ID;
+import static com.att.eelf.configuration.Configuration.MDC_SERVICE_NAME;
+import java.text.DateFormat;
+import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
+import java.time.Instant;
+import java.time.temporal.ChronoUnit;
+import java.util.Date;
+import java.util.TimeZone;
+
+/**
+ * Logging utilities
+ */
+public class LoggingUtils {
+
+    private static final EELFLogger errorLogger = EELFManager.getInstance().getErrorLogger();
+    private static final EELFLogger auditLogger = EELFManager.getInstance().getAuditLogger();
+    private static final EELFLogger metricLogger = EELFManager.getInstance().getMetricsLogger();
+
+    private LoggingUtils() {
+        throw new IllegalAccessError("LoggingUtils");
+    }
+
+    public static void logErrorMessage(String errorCode, String errorDescription,
+            String targetEntity, String targetServiceName, String additionalMessage,
+            String className) {
+        logError(errorCode, errorDescription, targetEntity, targetServiceName, additionalMessage,
+                className);
+    }
+
+    public static void logErrorMessage(String targetEntity, String targetServiceName,
+            String additionalMessage, String className) {
+        logError("", "", targetEntity, targetServiceName, additionalMessage, className);
+    }
+
+    public static void logErrorMessage(String targetServiceName, String additionalMessage,
+            String className) {
+        logError("", "", LoggingConstants.TargetNames.APPC, targetServiceName, additionalMessage,
+                className);
+    }
+
+    private static void logError(String errorCode, String errorDescription, String targetEntity,
+            String targetServiceName, String additionalMessage, String className) {
+        populateErrorLogContext(errorCode, errorDescription, targetEntity, targetServiceName,
+                className);
+        errorLogger.error(additionalMessage == null ? "" : additionalMessage);
+        cleanErrorLogContext();
+    }
+
+    public static void logAuditMessage(Instant beginTimeStamp, Instant endTimeStamp, String code,
+            String responseDescription, String className) {
+        populateAuditLogContext(beginTimeStamp, endTimeStamp, code, responseDescription, className);
+        auditLogger.info(EELFResourceManager.format(Msg.APPC_AUDIT_MSG, MDC.get(MDC_SERVICE_NAME),
+                MDC.get(LoggingConstants.MDCKeys.TARGET_VIRTUAL_ENTITY),
+                MDC.get(LoggingConstants.MDCKeys.PARTNER_NAME), MDC.get(MDC_KEY_REQUEST_ID),
+                MDC.get(LoggingConstants.MDCKeys.BEGIN_TIMESTAMP),
+                MDC.get(LoggingConstants.MDCKeys.END_TIMESTAMP),
+                MDC.get(LoggingConstants.MDCKeys.RESPONSE_CODE)));
+        cleanAuditErrorContext();
+    }
+
+    public static void auditInfo(Instant beginTimeStamp, Instant endTimeStamp, String code,
+            String responseDescription, String className, EELFResolvableErrorEnum resourceId,
+            String... arguments) {
+        populateAuditLogContext(beginTimeStamp, endTimeStamp, code, responseDescription, className);
+        auditLogger.info(resourceId, arguments);
+        cleanAuditErrorContext();
+    }
+
+    public static void auditWarn(Instant beginTimeStamp, Instant endTimeStamp, String code,
+            String responseDescription, String className, EELFResolvableErrorEnum resourceId,
+            String... arguments) {
+        populateAuditLogContext(beginTimeStamp, endTimeStamp, code, responseDescription, className);
+        auditLogger.warn(resourceId, arguments);
+        cleanAuditErrorContext();
+    }
+
+    public static void logMetricsMessage(Instant beginTimeStamp, Instant endTimeStamp,
+            String targetEntity, String targetServiceName, String statusCode, String responseCode,
+            String responseDescription, String className) {
+        populateMetricLogContext(beginTimeStamp, endTimeStamp, targetEntity, targetServiceName,
+                statusCode, responseCode, responseDescription, className);
+        metricLogger.info(EELFResourceManager.format(Msg.APPC_METRIC_MSG, MDC.get(MDC_SERVICE_NAME),
+                MDC.get(LoggingConstants.MDCKeys.TARGET_VIRTUAL_ENTITY),
+                MDC.get(LoggingConstants.MDCKeys.PARTNER_NAME), MDC.get(MDC_KEY_REQUEST_ID),
+                MDC.get(LoggingConstants.MDCKeys.TARGET_ENTITY),
+                MDC.get(LoggingConstants.MDCKeys.TARGET_SERVICE_NAME),
+                MDC.get(LoggingConstants.MDCKeys.ELAPSED_TIME),
+                MDC.get(LoggingConstants.MDCKeys.STATUS_CODE)));
+        cleanMetricContext();
+    }
+
+    private static void populateAuditLogContext(Instant beginTimeStamp, Instant endTimeStamp,
+            String code, String responseDescription, String className) {
+        populateTimeContext(beginTimeStamp, endTimeStamp);
+        MDC.put(LoggingConstants.MDCKeys.RESPONSE_CODE, code);
+        MDC.put(LoggingConstants.MDCKeys.STATUS_CODE, "100".equals(code) || "400".equals(code)
+                ? LoggingConstants.StatusCodes.COMPLETE : LoggingConstants.StatusCodes.ERROR);
+        MDC.put(LoggingConstants.MDCKeys.RESPONSE_DESCRIPTION,
+                responseDescription != null ? responseDescription : "");
+        MDC.put(LoggingConstants.MDCKeys.CLASS_NAME, className != null ? className : "");
+    }
+
+    private static void cleanAuditErrorContext() {
+        cleanTimeContext();
+        MDC.remove(LoggingConstants.MDCKeys.STATUS_CODE);
+        MDC.remove(LoggingConstants.MDCKeys.RESPONSE_CODE);
+        MDC.remove(LoggingConstants.MDCKeys.RESPONSE_DESCRIPTION);
+        MDC.remove(LoggingConstants.MDCKeys.CLASS_NAME);
+    }
+
+    private static void populateErrorLogContext(String errorCode, String errorDescription,
+            String targetEntity, String targetServiceName, String className) {
+        populateErrorContext(errorCode, errorDescription);
+        populateTargetContext(targetEntity, targetServiceName != null ? targetServiceName : "");
+        MDC.put(LoggingConstants.MDCKeys.CLASS_NAME, className != null ? className : "");
+    }
+
+    private static void cleanErrorLogContext() {
+        cleanErrorContext();
+        cleanTargetContext();
+        MDC.remove(LoggingConstants.MDCKeys.CLASS_NAME);
+    }
+
+    private static void populateMetricLogContext(Instant beginTimeStamp, Instant endTimeStamp,
+            String targetEntity, String targetServiceName, String statusCode, String responseCode,
+            String responseDescription, String className) {
+        populateTimeContext(beginTimeStamp, endTimeStamp);
+        populateTargetContext(targetEntity, targetServiceName);
+        populateResponseContext(statusCode, responseCode, responseDescription);
+        MDC.put(LoggingConstants.MDCKeys.CLASS_NAME, className != null ? className : "");
+    }
+
+    private static void cleanMetricContext() {
+        cleanTimeContext();
+        cleanTargetContext();
+        cleanResponseContext();
+        MDC.remove(LoggingConstants.MDCKeys.CLASS_NAME);
+    }
+
+    private static void populateTargetContext(String targetEntity, String targetServiceName) {
+        MDC.put(LoggingConstants.MDCKeys.TARGET_ENTITY, targetEntity != null ? targetEntity : "");
+        MDC.put(LoggingConstants.MDCKeys.TARGET_SERVICE_NAME,
+                targetServiceName != null ? targetServiceName : "");
+    }
+
+    private static void cleanTargetContext() {
+        MDC.remove(LoggingConstants.MDCKeys.TARGET_ENTITY);
+        MDC.remove(LoggingConstants.MDCKeys.TARGET_SERVICE_NAME);
+    }
+
+    private static void populateTimeContext(Instant beginTimeStamp, Instant endTimeStamp) {
+        String beginTime = "";
+        String endTime = "";
+        String elapsedTime = "";
+
+        if (beginTimeStamp != null && endTimeStamp != null) {
+            elapsedTime = String.valueOf(ChronoUnit.MILLIS.between(beginTimeStamp, endTimeStamp));
+            beginTime = generateTimestampStr(beginTimeStamp);
+            endTime = generateTimestampStr(endTimeStamp);
+        }
+
+        MDC.put(LoggingConstants.MDCKeys.BEGIN_TIMESTAMP, beginTime);
+        MDC.put(LoggingConstants.MDCKeys.END_TIMESTAMP, endTime);
+        MDC.put(LoggingConstants.MDCKeys.ELAPSED_TIME, elapsedTime);
+    }
+
+    private static String generateTimestampStr(Instant timeStamp) {
+        DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssX");
+        TimeZone tz = TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC");
+        df.setTimeZone(tz);
+        return df.format(Date.from(timeStamp));
+    }
+
+    private static void cleanTimeContext() {
+        MDC.remove(LoggingConstants.MDCKeys.BEGIN_TIMESTAMP);
+        MDC.remove(LoggingConstants.MDCKeys.END_TIMESTAMP);
+        MDC.remove(LoggingConstants.MDCKeys.ELAPSED_TIME);
+    }
+
+    private static void populateResponseContext(String statusCode, String responseCode,
+            String responseDescription) {
+        MDC.put(LoggingConstants.MDCKeys.STATUS_CODE, statusCode != null ? statusCode : "");
+        MDC.put(LoggingConstants.MDCKeys.RESPONSE_CODE, responseCode);
+        MDC.put(LoggingConstants.MDCKeys.RESPONSE_DESCRIPTION,
+                responseDescription != null ? responseDescription : "");
+    }
+
+    private static void cleanResponseContext() {
+        MDC.remove(LoggingConstants.MDCKeys.STATUS_CODE);
+        MDC.remove(LoggingConstants.MDCKeys.RESPONSE_CODE);
+        MDC.remove(LoggingConstants.MDCKeys.RESPONSE_DESCRIPTION);
+    }
+
+    private static void populateErrorContext(String errorCode, String errorDescription) {
+        MDC.put(LoggingConstants.MDCKeys.ERROR_CODE, errorCode);
+        MDC.put(LoggingConstants.MDCKeys.ERROR_DESCRIPTION, errorDescription);
+    }
+
+    private static void cleanErrorContext() {
+        MDC.remove(LoggingConstants.MDCKeys.ERROR_CODE);
+        MDC.remove(LoggingConstants.MDCKeys.ERROR_DESCRIPTION);
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/metadata/MetadataService.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/metadata/MetadataService.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..dfaa462aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/metadata/MetadataService.java
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+package org.onap.appc.metadata;
+
+import org.onap.appc.metadata.objects.DependencyModelIdentifier;
+
+
+public interface MetadataService {
+    String getVnfModel(DependencyModelIdentifier modelIdentifier);
+}
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/metadata/impl/MetadataServiceImpl.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/metadata/impl/MetadataServiceImpl.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..70d2e6363
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/metadata/impl/MetadataServiceImpl.java
@@ -0,0 +1,123 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+package org.onap.appc.metadata.impl;
+
+import com.att.eelf.configuration.EELFLogger;
+import com.att.eelf.configuration.EELFManager;
+import org.onap.ccsdk.sli.core.dblib.DbLibService;
+
+import javax.sql.rowset.CachedRowSet;
+
+import org.onap.appc.cache.MetadataCache;
+import org.onap.appc.cache.impl.MetadataCacheFactory;
+import org.onap.appc.metadata.MetadataService;
+import org.onap.appc.metadata.objects.DependencyModelIdentifier;
+
+import java.sql.SQLException;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+
+
+public class MetadataServiceImpl implements MetadataService {
+
+    private DbLibService dbLibService;
+
+    private static final EELFLogger logger = EELFManager.getInstance().getLogger(MetadataServiceImpl.class);
+
+    private MetadataCache<DependencyModelIdentifier, String> cache;
+
+    public MetadataServiceImpl() {
+        initialize();
+    }
+
+    private void initialize() {
+        cache = MetadataCacheFactory.getInstance().getMetadataCache();
+        // TODO initialze dbLibService
+    }
+
+    public void setDbLibService(DbLibService dbLibService) {
+        this.dbLibService = dbLibService;
+    }
+
+    void setCache(MetadataCache<DependencyModelIdentifier, String> cache) {
+        this.cache = cache;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getVnfModel(DependencyModelIdentifier modelIdentifier) {
+        logger.debug("Reading Vnf Model data from cache for vnfType : " + modelIdentifier.getVnfType()
+            + " and catalog version : " + modelIdentifier.getCatalogVersion());
+        String vnfModel = cache.getObject(modelIdentifier);
+        if (vnfModel == null || vnfModel.length() == 0) {
+            logger.debug("Vnf Model not available in cache. Reading from database.");
+            vnfModel = readVnfModel(modelIdentifier);
+            if (vnfModel != null && vnfModel.length() > 0) {
+                logger.debug("Adding retrieved Vnf Model to cache.");
+                addVnfModel(modelIdentifier, vnfModel);
+            }
+        }
+        return vnfModel;
+    }
+
+    private void addVnfModel(DependencyModelIdentifier modelIdentifier, String vnfModel) {
+        cache.putObject(modelIdentifier, vnfModel);
+    }
+
+    private String readVnfModel(DependencyModelIdentifier modelIdentifier) {
+
+        logger.debug("Reading Vnf Model data from database for RESOURCE_NAME : " + modelIdentifier.getVnfType()
+            + " and RESOURCE_VERSION : " + modelIdentifier.getCatalogVersion());
+        StringBuilder query = new StringBuilder();
+        String vnfModel = null;
+        query.append("SELECT ARTIFACT_CONTENT FROM sdnctl.ASDC_ARTIFACTS WHERE RESOURCE_NAME = ? ");
+        ArrayList<String> argList = new ArrayList<>();
+        argList.add(modelIdentifier.getVnfType());
+
+        if (modelIdentifier.getCatalogVersion() == null) {
+            query.append(" ORDER BY  SUBSTRING_INDEX(RESOURCE_VERSION, '.', 1)*1  DESC , " +
+                "SUBSTRING_INDEX(SUBSTRING_INDEX(RESOURCE_VERSION, '.', 2),'.', -1) *1 DESC , " +
+                "SUBSTRING_INDEX(RESOURCE_VERSION, '.', -1)*1 DESC ;");
+        } else {
+            query.append("AND RESOURCE_VERSION = ? ;");
+            argList.add(modelIdentifier.getCatalogVersion());
+        }
+        try {
+            final CachedRowSet data = dbLibService.getData(query.toString(), argList, "sdnctl");
+            if (data.first()) {
+                vnfModel = data.getString("ARTIFACT_CONTENT");
+                if (vnfModel == null || vnfModel.isEmpty()) {
+                    logger.error("Invalid dependency model for vnf type : " + modelIdentifier.getVnfType()
+                        + " and catalog version : " + modelIdentifier.getCatalogVersion());
+                    throw new RuntimeException("Invalid or Empty VNF Model");
+                }
+                logger.debug("Retrieved Vnf Model : " + vnfModel);
+            } else {
+                logger.warn("VNF Model not found in datastore for RESOURCE_NAME : " + modelIdentifier.getVnfType()
+                    + " AND RESOURCE_VERSION : " + modelIdentifier.getCatalogVersion());
+            }
+        } catch (SQLException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException("Database error occurred");
+        }
+        return vnfModel;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/metadata/objects/DependencyModelIdentifier.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/metadata/objects/DependencyModelIdentifier.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..070e200c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/metadata/objects/DependencyModelIdentifier.java
@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+package org.onap.appc.metadata.objects;
+
+/**
+ * Object of identifier for dependency model. Currently uses VNF type and catalog version
+ */
+public class DependencyModelIdentifier {
+    static final String TO_STRING_FORMAT =
+            "DependencyModelIdentifier : vnfType = %s , catalogVersion = %s";
+    static final int prime = 31;
+
+    private String vnfType;
+    private String catalogVersion;
+
+    /**
+     * Constructor
+     * 
+     * @param vnfType String of the VNF type
+     * @param catalogVersion String of the catalog version
+     */
+    public DependencyModelIdentifier(String vnfType, String catalogVersion) {
+        this.vnfType = vnfType;
+        this.catalogVersion = catalogVersion;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int hashCode() {
+        int result = 1;
+        result = result * prime + (this.vnfType == null ? 0 : this.vnfType.hashCode());
+        result = result * prime
+                + (this.catalogVersion == null ? 0 : this.catalogVersion.hashCode());
+        return result;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean equals(Object obj) {
+        if (obj == null) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        if (!(obj instanceof DependencyModelIdentifier)) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        DependencyModelIdentifier modelIdentifier = (DependencyModelIdentifier) obj;
+        if (this.vnfType == null) {
+            if (modelIdentifier.vnfType != null) {
+                return false;
+            }
+        } else if (!this.vnfType.equals(modelIdentifier.vnfType)) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        if (this.catalogVersion == null) {
+            if (modelIdentifier.catalogVersion != null) {
+                return false;
+            }
+        } else if (!this.catalogVersion.equals(modelIdentifier.catalogVersion)) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String toString() {
+        return String.format(TO_STRING_FORMAT, vnfType, catalogVersion);
+    }
+
+    public String getVnfType() {
+        return vnfType;
+    }
+
+    public String getCatalogVersion() {
+        return catalogVersion;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/pool/Allocator.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/pool/Allocator.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9992e89ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/pool/Allocator.java
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+
+
+package org.onap.appc.pool;
+
+import java.io.Closeable;
+
+/**
+ * This interface is used to supply an object that will be called by the pool manager whenever a new widget must be
+ * allocated.
+ * @param <T>
+ *            The generic type that we are caching.
+ */
+
+public interface Allocator<T extends Closeable> {
+
+    /**
+     * Allocate an object of type <T> and return it to the pool
+     *
+     * @param pool
+     *            The pool that the object is to be allocated to
+     * @return An object of type T
+     */
+    T allocate(Pool<T> pool);
+}
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/pool/CacheManagement.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/pool/CacheManagement.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d0051a8e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/pool/CacheManagement.java
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+
+package org.onap.appc.pool;
+
+public interface CacheManagement {
+
+    /**
+     * @return The object that is actually being wrapped and cached
+     */
+    Object getWrappedObject();
+
+}
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/pool/CachedElement.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/pool/CachedElement.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e9b2ffeae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/pool/CachedElement.java
@@ -0,0 +1,214 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+package org.onap.appc.pool;
+
+import java.io.Closeable;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.lang.reflect.InvocationHandler;
+import java.lang.reflect.Method;
+import java.lang.reflect.Proxy;
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;
+
+/**
+ * This class is used as a "wrapper" for any closeable elements that are cached in a pool. It is
+ * implemented as a dynamic proxy, so that it appears to be the same class of object to the client
+ * as the interface being cached. The generic type being cached MUST be an interface.
+ * 
+ * @param <T> The generic type that we create a cached element for. This type is used to wrap
+ *        instances of this type and expose access to the {@link java.io.Closeable} interface by
+ *        using a dynamic proxy.
+ */
+
+public class CachedElement<T extends Closeable>
+        implements Closeable, InvocationHandler, CacheManagement {
+
+    /**
+     * The pool that is managing this cached element
+     */
+    private Pool<T> pool;
+
+    /**
+     * The element that we are caching in the pool
+     */
+    private T element;
+
+    /**
+     * A thread-safe atomic indicator that tells us that the wrapped element has been released to
+     * the pool already, and not to do it again.
+     */
+    private AtomicBoolean released = new AtomicBoolean(false);
+
+    /**
+     * Create a new instance of a cached element dynamic proxy for use in the pool.
+     * <p>
+     * This returns an instance of the proxy to the caller that appears to be the same interface(s)
+     * as the object being cached. The dynamic proxy then intercepts all open and close semantics
+     * and directs that element to the pool.
+     * </p>
+     * <p>
+     * If the object being proxied does not implement the {@link CacheManagement} interface, then
+     * that interface is added to the dynamic proxy being created. This interface is actually
+     * implemented by the invocation handler (this object) for the proxy and allows direct access to
+     * the wrapped object inside the proxy.
+     * </p>
+     *
+     * @param pool The pool that we are caching these elements within
+     * @param element The element actually being cached
+     * @param interfaces The interface list of interfaces the element must implement (usually one)
+     * @return The dynamic proxy
+     */
+    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+    public static <T extends Closeable> T newInstance(Pool<T> pool, T element,
+            Class<?>[] interfaces) {
+        ClassLoader cl = element.getClass().getClassLoader();
+        CachedElement<T> ce = new CachedElement<>(pool, element);
+        boolean found = false;
+        for (Class<?> intf : interfaces) {
+            if (intf.getName().equals(CacheManagement.class.getName())) {
+                found = true;
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+
+        int length = found ? interfaces.length : interfaces.length + 1;
+        Class<?>[] proxyInterfaces = new Class[length];
+        System.arraycopy(interfaces, 0, proxyInterfaces, 0, interfaces.length);
+
+        if (!found) {
+            proxyInterfaces[interfaces.length] = CacheManagement.class;
+        }
+
+        return (T) Proxy.newProxyInstance(cl, proxyInterfaces, ce);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Construct a cached element and assign it to the pool as a free element
+     *
+     * @param pool The pool that the element will be managed within
+     * @param element The element we are caching
+     */
+    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+    public CachedElement(Pool<T> pool, T element) {
+        this.pool = pool;
+        this.element = element;
+
+        try {
+            pool.release((T) this);
+        } catch (PoolDrainedException e) {
+            e.printStackTrace();
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This method delegates the close call to the actual wrapped element.
+     * <p>
+     * NOTE: This is not the same method that is called by the dynamic proxy. This method is in
+     * place to satisfy the signature of the {@link java.io.Closeable} interface. If it were to be
+     * called directly, then we will delegate the close to the underlying context. However, when the
+     * cached element is called as a synamic proxy, entry is in the
+     * {@link #invoke(Object, Method, Object[])} method.
+     * </p>
+     * 
+     * @see java.io.Closeable#close()
+     */
+    @Override
+    public void close() throws IOException {
+        element.close();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This method is the magic part of dynamic proxies. When the caller makes a method call based
+     * on the interface being proxied, this method is given control. This informs us of the method
+     * and arguments of the call. The object reference is that of the dynamic proxy itself, which is
+     * us.
+     * <p>
+     * Here we will check to see if the user is trying to close the "element" (the dynamic proxy
+     * acts like the wrapped element). If he is, then we don't really close it, but instead release
+     * the element that we are wrapping back to the free pool. Once this has happened, we mark the
+     * element as "closed" (from the perspective of this dynamic proxy) so that we wont try to
+     * release it again.
+     * </p>
+     * <p>
+     * If the method is the <code>equals</code> method then we assume that we are comparing the
+     * cached element in one dynamic proxy to the cached element in another. We execute the
+     * comparison between the cached elements, and not the dynamic proxies themselves. This
+     * preserves the allusion to the caller that the dynamic proxy is the object being wrapped.
+     * </p>
+     * <p>
+     * For convenience, we also implement the <code>getWrappedObject</code> method so that the
+     * dynamic proxy can be called to obtain the actual wrapped object if desired. Note, to use this
+     * method, the caller would have to invoke it through reflection.
+     * </p>
+     * <p>
+     * If the method being invoked is not one that we intercept, then we simply delegate that method
+     * onto the wrapped object.
+     * </p>
+     * 
+     * @see java.lang.reflect.InvocationHandler#invoke(java.lang.Object, java.lang.reflect.Method,
+     *      java.lang.Object[])
+     */
+    @SuppressWarnings({"unchecked", "nls"})
+    @Override
+    public Object invoke(Object proxy, Method method, Object[] args) throws Exception {
+        Object result = null;
+
+        switch (method.getName()) {
+            case "close":
+                if (released.compareAndSet(false, true)) {
+                    if (!pool.isDrained()) {
+                        pool.release((T) proxy);
+                    }
+                }
+                break;
+            case "equals":
+                CacheManagement cm = (CacheManagement) proxy;
+                T other = (T) cm.getWrappedObject();
+                result = element.equals(other);
+                break;
+            case "getWrappedObject":
+                return element;
+            default:
+                result = method.invoke(element, args);
+                break;
+        }
+
+        return result;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This method is used to be able to access the wrapped object underneath the dynamic proxy
+     * 
+     * @see org.onap.appc.pool.CacheManagement#getWrappedObject()
+     */
+    @Override
+    public T getWrappedObject() {
+        return element;
+    }
+
+    @SuppressWarnings("nls")
+    @Override
+    public String toString() {
+        return element == null ? "null" : element.toString();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/pool/Destructor.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/pool/Destructor.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6c7e7d418
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/pool/Destructor.java
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+
+
+package org.onap.appc.pool;
+
+import java.io.Closeable;
+
+/**
+ * @param <T>
+ *            The generic type we are caching
+ */
+
+public interface Destructor<T extends Closeable> {
+
+    /**
+     * Called to destroy the object when it is no longer being used by the pool
+     *
+     * @param obj
+     *            The object to be destroyed
+     * @param pool
+     *            The pool that the object is being removed from
+     */
+    void destroy(T obj, Pool<T> pool);
+}
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/pool/Pool.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/pool/Pool.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1faf0fe42
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/pool/Pool.java
@@ -0,0 +1,371 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+
+
+package org.onap.appc.pool;
+
+import java.io.Closeable;
+import java.util.ArrayDeque;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.Deque;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.ListIterator;
+import java.util.Properties;
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;
+import java.util.concurrent.locks.Lock;
+import java.util.concurrent.locks.ReadWriteLock;
+import java.util.concurrent.locks.ReentrantReadWriteLock;
+
+/**
+ * This class is used to manage a pool of things.
+ * <p>
+ * The class is parameterized so that the type of objects maintained in the pool is definable by some provided type.
+ * This type must implement the <code>Comparable</code> interface so that it can be managed in the pool.
+ * </p>
+ * 
+ * @param <T>
+ *            The type of element being pooled
+ */
+
+public class Pool<T extends Closeable> {
+    private Deque<T> free;
+    private List<T> allocated;
+    private int minPool;
+    private int maxPool;
+    private Allocator<T> allocator;
+    private Destructor<T> destructor;
+    private ReadWriteLock lock;
+    private AtomicBoolean drained;
+    private Properties properties;
+
+    /**
+     * Create the pool
+     *
+     * @param minPool
+     *            The minimum size of the pool
+     * @param maxPool
+     *            The maximum size of the pool, set to zero (0) for unbounded
+     * @throws PoolSpecificationException
+     *             If the minimum size is less than 0, or if the max size is non-zero and less than the min size.
+     */
+    public Pool(int minPool, int maxPool) throws PoolSpecificationException {
+
+        if (minPool < 0) {
+            throw new PoolSpecificationException(String.format("The minimum pool size must be a "
+                + "positive value or zero, %d is not valid.", minPool));
+        }
+        if (maxPool != 0 && maxPool < minPool) {
+            throw new PoolSpecificationException(String.format("The maximum pool size must be a "
+                + "positive value greater than the minimum size, or zero. %d is not valid.", maxPool));
+        }
+
+        this.minPool = minPool;
+        this.maxPool = maxPool;
+
+        properties = new Properties();
+        free = new ArrayDeque<T>();
+        allocated = new ArrayList<T>();
+        lock = new ReentrantReadWriteLock();
+        drained = new AtomicBoolean(false);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the amount of objects on the free collection
+     *
+     * @return The number of objects on the free collection
+     */
+    public int getFreeSize() {
+        Lock readLock = lock.readLock();
+        readLock.lock();
+        try {
+            return free.size();
+        } finally {
+            readLock.unlock();
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the value for a specified property of this pool, if defined.
+     * 
+     * @param key
+     *            The key of the desired property
+     * @return The value of the property, or null if not defined
+     */
+    public String getProperty(String key) {
+        return properties.getProperty(key);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Sets the value of the specified property or replaces it if it already exists
+     * 
+     * @param key
+     *            The key of the property to be set
+     * @param value
+     *            The value to set the property to
+     */
+    public void setProperty(String key, String value) {
+        properties.setProperty(key, value);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @return The properties object for the pool
+     */
+    public Properties getProperties() {
+        return properties;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the number of objects that are currently allocated
+     *
+     * @return The allocate collection size
+     */
+    public int getAllocatedSize() {
+        Lock readLock = lock.readLock();
+        readLock.lock();
+        try {
+            return allocated.size();
+        } finally {
+            readLock.unlock();
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @return the value of allocator
+     */
+    public Allocator<T> getAllocator() {
+        return allocator;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @param allocator
+     *            the value for allocator
+     */
+    public void setAllocator(Allocator<T> allocator) {
+        this.allocator = allocator;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @return the value of destructor
+     */
+    public Destructor<T> getDestructor() {
+        return destructor;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @return the value of minPool
+     */
+    public int getMinPool() {
+        return minPool;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @return the value of maxPool
+     */
+    public int getMaxPool() {
+        return maxPool;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @param destructor
+     *            the value for destructor
+     */
+    public void setDestructor(Destructor<T> destructor) {
+        this.destructor = destructor;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Drains the pool, releasing and destroying all pooled objects, even if they are currently allocated.
+     */
+    public void drain() {
+        if (drained.compareAndSet(false, true)) {
+            Lock writeLock = lock.writeLock();
+            writeLock.lock();
+            try {
+                int size = getAllocatedSize();
+                /*
+                 * We can't use the "release" method call here because we are modifying the list we are iterating
+                 */
+                ListIterator<T> it = allocated.listIterator();
+                while (it.hasNext()) {
+                    T obj = it.next();
+                    it.remove();
+                    free.addFirst(obj);
+                }
+                size = getFreeSize();
+                trim(size);
+            } finally {
+                writeLock.unlock();
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns an indication if the pool has been drained
+     *
+     * @return True indicates that the pool has been drained. Once a pool has been drained, it can no longer be used.
+     */
+    public boolean isDrained() {
+        return drained.get();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Reserves an object of type T from the pool for the caller and returns it
+     *
+     * @return The object of type T to be used by the caller
+     * @throws PoolExtensionException
+     *             If the pool cannot be extended
+     * @throws PoolDrainedException
+     *             If the caller is trying to reserve an element from a drained pool
+     */
+    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+    public T reserve() throws PoolExtensionException, PoolDrainedException {
+        if (isDrained()) {
+            throw new PoolDrainedException("The pool has been drained and cannot be used.");
+        }
+
+        T obj = null;
+        Lock writeLock = lock.writeLock();
+        writeLock.lock();
+        try {
+            int freeSize = getFreeSize();
+            int allocatedSize = getAllocatedSize();
+
+            if (freeSize == 0) {
+                if (allocatedSize == 0) {
+                    extend(minPool == 0 ? 1 : minPool);
+                } else if (allocatedSize >= maxPool && maxPool > 0) {
+                    throw new PoolExtensionException(String.format("Unable to add "
+                        + "more elements, pool is at maximum size of %d", maxPool));
+                } else {
+                    extend(1);
+                }
+            }
+
+            obj = free.removeFirst();
+            allocated.add(obj);
+        } finally {
+            writeLock.unlock();
+        }
+
+        /*
+         * Now that we have the real object, lets wrap it in a dynamic proxy so that we can intercept the close call and
+         * just return the context to the free pool. obj.getClass().getInterfaces(). We need to find ALL interfaces that
+         * the object (and all superclasses) implement and have the proxy implement them too
+         */
+        Class<?> cls = obj.getClass();
+        Class<?>[] array;
+        List<Class<?>> interfaces = new ArrayList<Class<?>>();
+        while (!cls.equals(Object.class)) {
+            array = cls.getInterfaces();
+            for (Class<?> item : array) {
+                if (!interfaces.contains(item)) {
+                    interfaces.add(item);
+                }
+            }
+            cls = cls.getSuperclass();
+        }
+        array = new Class<?>[interfaces.size()];
+        array = interfaces.toArray(array);
+        return CachedElement.newInstance(this, obj, array);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * releases the allocated object back to the free pool to be used by another request.
+     *
+     * @param obj
+     *            The object to be returned to the pool
+     * @throws PoolDrainedException
+     *             If the caller is trying to release an element to a drained pool
+     */
+    public void release(T obj) throws PoolDrainedException {
+        if (isDrained()) {
+            throw new PoolDrainedException("The pool has been drained and cannot be used.");
+        }
+        Lock writeLock = lock.writeLock();
+        writeLock.lock();
+        try {
+            if (allocated.remove(obj)) {
+                free.addFirst(obj);
+            }
+        } finally {
+            writeLock.unlock();
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Extend the free pool by some number of elements
+     *
+     * @param count
+     *            The number of elements to add to the pool
+     * @throws PoolExtensionException
+     *             if the pool cannot be extended because no allocator has been specified.
+     */
+    private void extend(int count) throws PoolExtensionException {
+        if (allocator == null) {
+            throw new PoolExtensionException(String.format("Unable to extend pool "
+                + "because no allocator has been specified"));
+        }
+        Lock writeLock = lock.writeLock();
+        writeLock.lock();
+        try {
+            for (int index = 0; index < count; index++) {
+                T obj = allocator.allocate(this);
+                if (obj == null) {
+                    throw new PoolExtensionException(
+                        "The allocator failed to allocate a new context to extend the pool.");
+                }
+                free.push(obj);
+            }
+        } finally {
+            writeLock.unlock();
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Used to trim the free collection by some specified number of elements, or the free element count, whichever is
+     * less. The elements are removed from the end of the free element deque, thus trimming the oldest elements first.
+     *
+     * @param count
+     *            The number of elements to trim
+     */
+    private void trim(int count) {
+        Lock writeLock = lock.writeLock();
+        writeLock.lock();
+        try {
+            int trimCount = count;
+            if (getFreeSize() < count) {
+                trimCount = getFreeSize();
+            }
+            for (int i = 0; i < trimCount; i++) {
+                T obj = free.removeLast();
+                if (destructor != null) {
+                    destructor.destroy(obj, this);
+                }
+            }
+        } finally {
+            writeLock.unlock();
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/pool/PoolDrainedException.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/pool/PoolDrainedException.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..08313669f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/pool/PoolDrainedException.java
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+
+
+package org.onap.appc.pool;
+
+/**
+ * This exception is thrown whenever an attempt is made to access a pool of resources where the pool has been drained.
+ * Once drained, the pool is no longer usable.
+ *
+ */
+public class PoolDrainedException extends PoolException {
+
+    /**
+     *
+     */
+    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
+
+    /**
+     * PoolDrainedException constructor
+     *
+     * @param msg
+     *            The error message
+     */
+    public PoolDrainedException(String msg) {
+        super(msg);
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/pool/PoolException.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/pool/PoolException.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9b22eeecf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/pool/PoolException.java
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+
+
+package org.onap.appc.pool;
+
+/**
+ * A pool exception is a specialization of checked exceptions that define various pool abnormal states or requests.
+ *
+ */
+public class PoolException extends Exception {
+    /**
+     *
+     */
+    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
+
+    /**
+     * PoolException constructor
+     */
+    public PoolException() {
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * PoolException constructor
+     *
+     * @param message
+     *            The error message
+     */
+    public PoolException(String message) {
+        super(message);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * PoolException constructor
+     *
+     * @param cause
+     *            The cause of the exception
+     */
+    public PoolException(Throwable cause) {
+        super(cause);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * PoolException constructor
+     *
+     * @param message
+     *            The error message
+     * @param cause
+     *            The cause of the exception
+     */
+    public PoolException(String message, Throwable cause) {
+        super(message, cause);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * PoolException constructor
+     *
+     * @param message
+     *            The error message
+     * @param cause
+     *            The cause of the exception
+     * @param enableSuppression
+     *            whether or not suppression is enabled or disabled
+     * @param writableStackTrace
+     *            whether or not the stack trace should be writable
+     */
+    public PoolException(String message, Throwable cause, boolean enableSuppression, boolean writableStackTrace) {
+        super(message, cause, enableSuppression, writableStackTrace);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/pool/PoolExtensionException.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/pool/PoolExtensionException.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9daaca1b6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/pool/PoolExtensionException.java
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+
+  
+package org.onap.appc.pool;
+
+/**
+ * An error occurred trying to extend the pool
+ *
+ */
+public class PoolExtensionException extends PoolException {
+
+    /**
+     *
+     */
+    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
+
+    /**
+     * PoolExtensionException constructor
+     *
+     * @param msg
+     *            The error message
+     */
+    public PoolExtensionException(String msg) {
+        super(msg);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/pool/PoolSpecificationException.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/pool/PoolSpecificationException.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d1f2189b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/pool/PoolSpecificationException.java
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+
+  
+package org.onap.appc.pool;
+
+/**
+ * This exception is thrown whenever the pool is not specified correctly
+ * 
+ */
+public class PoolSpecificationException extends PoolException {
+
+    /**
+     *
+     */
+    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
+
+    /**
+     * PoolSpecificationException constructor
+     *
+     * @param msg
+     *            The error message
+     */
+    public PoolSpecificationException(String msg) {
+        super(msg);
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/rest/client/RestClientInvoker.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/rest/client/RestClientInvoker.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..41a0a85a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/rest/client/RestClientInvoker.java
@@ -0,0 +1,258 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ *
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+package org.onap.appc.rest.client;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
+import java.net.MalformedURLException;
+import java.net.Socket;
+import java.net.URL;
+import java.security.KeyManagementException;
+import java.security.KeyStore;
+import java.security.KeyStoreException;
+import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
+import java.security.UnrecoverableKeyException;
+import java.security.cert.CertificateException;
+import java.security.cert.X509Certificate;
+import javax.net.ssl.SSLContext;
+import javax.net.ssl.TrustManager;
+import javax.net.ssl.X509TrustManager;
+import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64;
+import org.apache.http.HttpHeaders;
+import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
+import org.apache.http.HttpVersion;
+import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
+import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
+import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
+import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPut;
+import org.apache.http.conn.ClientConnectionManager;
+import org.apache.http.conn.scheme.PlainSocketFactory;
+import org.apache.http.conn.scheme.Scheme;
+import org.apache.http.conn.scheme.SchemeRegistry;
+import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLSocketFactory;
+import org.apache.http.entity.StringEntity;
+import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
+import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
+import org.apache.http.impl.conn.tsccm.ThreadSafeClientConnManager;
+import org.apache.http.params.BasicHttpParams;
+import org.apache.http.params.HttpParams;
+import org.apache.http.params.HttpProtocolParams;
+import org.apache.http.protocol.HTTP;
+import org.onap.appc.exceptions.APPCException;
+import com.att.eelf.configuration.EELFLogger;
+import com.att.eelf.configuration.EELFManager;
+
+@SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
+public class RestClientInvoker {
+
+    private static final EELFLogger LOG = EELFManager.getInstance().getLogger(RestClientInvoker.class);
+    private static final String OPERATION_HTTPS = "https";
+    private static final String OPERATION_APPLICATION_JSON = " application/json";
+    private static final String BASIC = "Basic ";
+
+    private URL url = null;
+    private String basicAuth = null;
+
+    public RestClientInvoker(URL url) {
+        this.url = url;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Sets the basic authentication header for the given user and password. If either entry is null
+     * then does not set basic auth
+     *
+     * @param user The user with optional domain name (for AAF)
+     * @param password The password for the user
+     */
+    public void setAuthentication(String user, String password) {
+        if (user != null && password != null) {
+            String authStr = user + ":" + password;
+            basicAuth = new String(Base64.encodeBase64(authStr.getBytes()));
+        }
+    }
+
+    public HttpResponse doPost(String path, String body) throws APPCException {
+        HttpPost post;
+
+        try {
+
+            URL postUrl = new URL(url.getProtocol(), url.getHost(), url.getPort(), path);
+            post = new HttpPost(postUrl.toExternalForm());
+            post.setHeader(HttpHeaders.CONTENT_TYPE, OPERATION_APPLICATION_JSON);
+            post.setHeader(HttpHeaders.ACCEPT, OPERATION_APPLICATION_JSON);
+
+            if (basicAuth != null) {
+                post.setHeader(HttpHeaders.AUTHORIZATION, BASIC + basicAuth);
+            }
+
+            StringEntity entity = new StringEntity(body);
+            entity.setContentType(OPERATION_APPLICATION_JSON);
+            post.setEntity(new StringEntity(body));
+        } catch (MalformedURLException | UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
+            throw new APPCException(e);
+        }
+        HttpClient client = getHttpClient();
+
+        try {
+            return client.execute(post);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new APPCException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This is Generic method that can be used to perform REST Put operation
+     *
+     * @param path - path for put
+     * @param body - payload for put action which will be sent as request body.
+     * @return - HttpResponse object which is returned from put REST call.
+     * @throws APPCException when error occurs
+     */
+    public HttpResponse doPut(String path, String body) throws APPCException {
+        HttpPut put;
+        try {
+            URL putUrl = new URL(url.getProtocol(), url.getHost(), url.getPort(), path);
+            put = new HttpPut(putUrl.toExternalForm());
+            put.setHeader(HttpHeaders.CONTENT_TYPE, OPERATION_APPLICATION_JSON);
+            put.setHeader(HttpHeaders.ACCEPT, OPERATION_APPLICATION_JSON);
+
+            if (basicAuth != null) {
+                put.setHeader(HttpHeaders.AUTHORIZATION, BASIC + basicAuth);
+            }
+
+            StringEntity entity = new StringEntity(body);
+            entity.setContentType(OPERATION_APPLICATION_JSON);
+            put.setEntity(new StringEntity(body));
+        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException | MalformedURLException e) {
+            throw new APPCException(e);
+        }
+
+        HttpClient client = getHttpClient();
+
+        try {
+            return client.execute(put);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new APPCException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public HttpResponse doGet(String path) throws APPCException {
+        HttpGet get;
+        try {
+            URL getUrl = new URL(url.getProtocol(), url.getHost(), url.getPort(), path);
+            get = new HttpGet(getUrl.toExternalForm());
+            get.setHeader(HttpHeaders.CONTENT_TYPE, OPERATION_APPLICATION_JSON);
+            get.setHeader(HttpHeaders.ACCEPT, OPERATION_APPLICATION_JSON);
+
+            if (basicAuth != null) {
+                get.setHeader(HttpHeaders.AUTHORIZATION, BASIC + basicAuth);
+            }
+
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            throw new APPCException(e);
+        }
+
+        try (CloseableHttpClient client = getHttpClient()) {
+            return client.execute(get);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new APPCException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private CloseableHttpClient getHttpClient() throws APPCException {
+        switch (url.getProtocol()) {
+            case OPERATION_HTTPS:
+                return createHttpsClient();
+            case "http":
+                return new DefaultHttpClient();
+            default:
+                throw new APPCException("The url did not start with http[s]");
+        }
+    }
+
+
+    private CloseableHttpClient createHttpsClient() {
+        try {
+            KeyStore trustStore = KeyStore.getInstance(KeyStore.getDefaultType());
+            trustStore.load(null, null);
+            MySSLSocketFactory sf = new MySSLSocketFactory(trustStore);
+            sf.setHostnameVerifier(MySSLSocketFactory.ALLOW_ALL_HOSTNAME_VERIFIER);
+
+            HttpParams params = new BasicHttpParams();
+            HttpProtocolParams.setVersion(params, HttpVersion.HTTP_1_1);
+            HttpProtocolParams.setContentCharset(params, HTTP.UTF_8);
+
+            SchemeRegistry registry = new SchemeRegistry();
+            registry.register(new Scheme("http", PlainSocketFactory.getSocketFactory(), 80));
+            registry.register(new Scheme(OPERATION_HTTPS, sf, 443));
+            registry.register(new Scheme(OPERATION_HTTPS, sf, 8443));
+            registry.register(new Scheme("http", sf, 8181));
+
+            ClientConnectionManager ccm = new ThreadSafeClientConnManager(params, registry);
+            return new DefaultHttpClient(ccm, params);
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            LOG.error("Error creating HTTPs Client. Creating default client.", e);
+            return new DefaultHttpClient();
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static class MySSLSocketFactory extends SSLSocketFactory {
+        private SSLContext sslContext = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS");
+
+        private MySSLSocketFactory(KeyStore truststore)
+                throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, KeyManagementException, KeyStoreException, UnrecoverableKeyException {
+            super(truststore);
+
+            TrustManager tm = new X509TrustManager() {
+                @Override
+                public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain, String authType) throws CertificateException {
+                    LOG.debug("Inside checkClientTrusted");
+                }
+
+                @Override
+                public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain, String authType) throws CertificateException {
+                    LOG.debug("Inside checkServerTrusted");
+                }
+
+                @Override
+                public X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
+                    return new X509Certificate[1];
+                }
+            };
+
+            sslContext.init(null, new TrustManager[] {tm}, null);
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public Socket createSocket(Socket socket, String host, int port, boolean autoClose) throws IOException {
+            return sslContext.getSocketFactory().createSocket(socket, host, port, autoClose);
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public Socket createSocket() throws IOException {
+            return sslContext.getSocketFactory().createSocket();
+        }
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/util/JsonUtil.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/util/JsonUtil.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..14784595c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/util/JsonUtil.java
@@ -0,0 +1,126 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+package org.onap.appc.util;
+
+import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.util.Map;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonInclude;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParser;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationFeature;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializationFeature;
+
+public class JsonUtil {
+
+    static ObjectMapper MAPPER = null;
+    static {
+        MAPPER = new ObjectMapper();
+        MAPPER.enable(SerializationFeature.INDENT_OUTPUT);
+        MAPPER.configure(JsonParser.Feature.ALLOW_COMMENTS, true);
+        MAPPER.setSerializationInclusion(JsonInclude.Include.NON_NULL);
+        MAPPER.disable(DeserializationFeature.FAIL_ON_UNKNOWN_PROPERTIES); // allow translation even
+                                                                           // if extra attrs exist
+                                                                           // in the json
+        MAPPER.configure(SerializationFeature.FAIL_ON_EMPTY_BEANS, false);
+        // Uncomment below when Jackson is upgraded to version 2.7 or above
+        // MAPPER.setPropertyNamingStrategy(PropertyNamingStrategy.KEBAB_CASE);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @param valueAsString a valid json Map represented as String
+     * @return a flat map that each entry key derived from hierarchy path in the json object and
+     *         flatted to a dotted separated string. e.g.
+     *         "{\"A\":\"A-value\",\"B\":{\"C\":\"B.C-value\",\"D\":\"B.D-value\"}}"; will be
+     *         represented as {A=A-value, B.C=B.C-value, B.D=B.D-value} when it required that the
+     *         input will not be flatted the json string should be formatted as below example: e.g.
+     *         "{\"A\":\"A-value\",\"B\":\"{\\\"C\\\":\\\"C-value\\\",\\\"D\\\":\\\"D-value\\\"}\"}"
+     *         will be represented as {A=A-value, B={"C":"C-value","D":"D-value"}}
+     * @throws IOException when the object is not valid json Map
+     */
+    public static Map<String, String> convertJsonStringToFlatMap(String valueAsString)
+            throws IOException {
+        Map readValueMap = MAPPER.readValue(valueAsString, Map.class);
+        return org.onap.appc.util.ObjectMapper.map(readValueMap);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * 0 is the getStackTrace method 1 is the current method 2 is the parent method, 3 is the
+     * grandparent method or the parent class in this case.
+     */
+    private static final int PARENT_CLASS_INDEX = 3;
+
+
+    /**
+     * @see #readInputJson(String, Class, Class)
+     */
+    public static <T> T readInputJson(String location, Class<T> returnClass) throws IOException {
+        return readInputJson(location, returnClass, getCallingClass(PARENT_CLASS_INDEX));
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @param location The location or name of the file we are trying to read e.g. JsonBody.json
+     * @param returnClass The class *this* Json is suppose to represent.
+     * @param locationClass The starting point for json lookup. the value specified by location is
+     *        relative to this class.
+     * @return The object being returned
+     * @throws IOException Can't find the specified json file at Location.
+     */
+    public static <T> T readInputJson(String location, Class<T> returnClass, Class<?> locationClass)
+            throws IOException {
+        try (InputStream is = locationClass.getResourceAsStream(location)) {
+            validateInput(is, location);
+            return MAPPER.readValue(is, returnClass);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Note that this method is sensitive to the depth of the call stack. For example if a public
+     * method calls a private method, that calls this method likely the desired classIndex value is
+     * 4 rather than 3. However, it's convenient to reduce the input required by callers of this
+     * class.
+     *
+     * @param classIndex How far up the stack trace to find the class we want.
+     * @return The class that called one of the public methods of this class.
+     */
+    private static Class<?> getCallingClass(int classIndex) {
+        String className = Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace()[classIndex].getClassName();
+        try {
+            return Class.forName(className);
+        } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
+            // Theoretically impossible.
+            throw new IllegalStateException(
+                    "Could not do class lookup for class in our stack trace?!?");
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static void validateInput(InputStream is, String location)
+            throws FileNotFoundException {
+        if (is == null) {
+            throw new FileNotFoundException(String.format("Could not find file at '%s'", location));
+        }
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/util/MessageFormatter.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/util/MessageFormatter.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a46047eaa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/util/MessageFormatter.java
@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+package org.onap.appc.util;
+
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
+import java.util.*;
+import java.util.regex.Matcher;
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
+
+
+public class MessageFormatter {
+    private final static String paramNameRegexGroupName = "paramName";
+
+    /**
+     * start with ${ and after there is one or more characters that are not $ and not } and ended with }
+     */
+    private final static String paramRegex = "\\$\\{(?<paramName>[^}$]+)\\}";
+
+    public static String format(String messageTemplate, Map<String, Object> params) {
+        if (StringUtils.isEmpty(messageTemplate))
+            return "";
+        if (params == null || params.isEmpty())
+            return messageTemplate;
+
+        String formattedMessage = messageTemplate;
+        if (formattedMessage.contains("$")) {
+            for (Map.Entry<String, Object> entry : params.entrySet()) {
+                formattedMessage = formattedMessage.replaceAll("\\$\\{" + entry.getKey() + "\\}",
+                        escapeDollarChar(String.valueOf(entry.getValue())));
+            }
+        }
+
+        return formattedMessage;
+    }
+
+    private static String escapeDollarChar(String msg) {
+        String formatedMsg = msg;
+        if (formatedMsg.contains("$")) {
+            formatedMsg = formatedMsg.replaceAll("\\$", "\\\\\\$");
+
+        }
+        return formatedMsg;
+    }
+
+    public static List<String> getParamsNamesList(String messageTemplate) {
+        List<String> paramsNames = null;
+        if (!StringUtils.isEmpty(messageTemplate)) {
+            paramsNames = new ArrayList<>();
+            Matcher m = Pattern.compile(paramRegex).matcher(messageTemplate);
+            while (m.find()) {
+                String paramName = m.group(paramNameRegexGroupName);
+                paramsNames.add(paramName);
+            }
+        }
+        return paramsNames;
+    }
+
+    public static Set<String> getParamsNamesSet(String messageTemplate) {
+        List<String> paramsNamesList = getParamsNamesList(messageTemplate);
+        Set<String> paramsNamesSet = null;
+        if (paramsNamesList != null && !paramsNamesList.isEmpty()) {
+            paramsNamesSet = new HashSet<String>();
+            for (String paramName : paramsNamesList) {
+                paramsNamesSet.add(paramName);
+            }
+        }
+        return paramsNamesSet;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/util/ObjectMapper.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/util/ObjectMapper.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e4b76dd7c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/util/ObjectMapper.java
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+package org.onap.appc.util;
+
+import java.lang.reflect.Array;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+public class ObjectMapper {
+
+	private ObjectMapper() {
+	}
+
+	private static void dispatch(PathContext context, Object obj) {
+
+		if (obj == null) {
+			return;
+		}
+
+		final Class<?> cls = obj.getClass();
+
+		if (cls.isPrimitive()
+				|| String.class.isAssignableFrom(cls)
+				|| Number.class.isAssignableFrom(cls)
+				|| Boolean.class.isAssignableFrom(cls)) {
+			handlePrimitive(context, obj);
+		} else if (cls.isArray()) {
+			handleArray(context, obj);
+		} else if (Map.class.isAssignableFrom(cls)) {
+			handleMap(context, (Map<?, ?>) obj);
+		} else if (Iterable.class.isAssignableFrom(cls)) {
+			handleCollection(context, Iterable.class.cast(obj));
+		} else {
+			throw new IllegalArgumentException(obj.getClass().getName());
+		}
+	}
+
+	public static Map<String, String> map(Object obj) {
+		PathContext context = new PathContext();
+		dispatch(context, obj);
+		return context.entries();
+	}
+
+	private static void handleMap(PathContext context, Map<?, ?> val) {
+		for (Map.Entry<?, ?> entry : val.entrySet()) {
+			context.pushToken(entry.getKey().toString());
+			dispatch(context, entry.getValue());
+			context.popToken();
+		}
+	}
+
+	private static void handleCollection(PathContext context, Iterable<?> val) {
+		int index = 0;
+		for (Object elem : val) {
+			handleElement(context, index++, elem);
+		}
+	}
+
+	private static void handleArray(PathContext context, Object val) {
+		for (int i = 0, n = Array.getLength(val); i < n; i++) {
+			handleElement(context, i, Array.get(val, i));
+		}
+	}
+
+	private static void handleElement(PathContext context, int index, Object val) {
+		if (val == null) {
+			return;
+		}
+
+		String modifier = new StringBuilder().append('[').append(Integer.valueOf(index)).append(']').toString();
+
+		context.pushModifier(modifier);
+		dispatch(context, val);
+		context.popModifier();
+	}
+
+	private static void handlePrimitive(PathContext context, Object val) {
+		context.entry(context.getPath(), val.toString());
+	}
+}
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/util/PathContext.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/util/PathContext.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d57837c14
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/util/PathContext.java
@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+package org.onap.appc.util;
+
+
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
+import java.util.LinkedList;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+class PathContext {
+
+	private StringBuilder path = new StringBuilder(128);
+
+	private LinkedList<Integer> indexes = new LinkedList<>();
+	private Map<String, String> entries = new LinkedHashMap<>();
+	private int offset = 0;
+
+	private final String delimiter;
+
+	PathContext() {
+		this(".");
+	}
+
+	PathContext(String delimiter) {
+		this.delimiter = delimiter;
+	}
+
+	private void push(String elem, boolean delimit) {
+		if (elem == null) {
+			throw new IllegalArgumentException();
+		}
+
+		int length = elem.length();
+
+		if (delimit && !indexes.isEmpty()) {
+			path.append(delimiter);
+			length += delimiter.length();
+		}
+
+		path.append(elem);
+		offset += length;
+		indexes.addLast(Integer.valueOf(length));
+	}
+
+	private void pop() {
+		if (indexes.isEmpty()) {
+			throw new IllegalStateException();
+		}
+		offset -= indexes.removeLast();
+		path.setLength(offset);
+	}
+
+	void pushToken(String token) {
+		push(token, true);
+	}
+
+	void popToken() {
+		pop();
+	}
+
+	void pushModifier(String modifier) {
+		push(modifier, false);
+	}
+
+	void popModifier() {
+		pop();
+	}
+
+	String getPath() {
+		return path.substring(0, offset);
+	}
+
+	void entry(String name, String value) {
+		entries.put(name, value);
+	}
+
+	Map<String, String> entries() {
+		return Collections.unmodifiableMap(entries);
+	}
+}
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/util/StreamHelper.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/util/StreamHelper.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4468c841b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/util/StreamHelper.java
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+
+package org.onap.appc.util;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.nio.charset.Charset;
+
+public class StreamHelper {
+
+    /**
+     * private default constructor prevents instantiation
+     */
+    private StreamHelper() {
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @param inputStream
+     * @return Input stream converted to string
+     */
+    public static String getStringFromInputStream(InputStream inputStream) {
+        StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
+        byte[] array = new byte[4096];
+
+        if (inputStream != null) {
+            try {
+                int len = inputStream.read(array);
+                while (len != -1) {
+                    buffer.append(new String(array, 0, len, Charset.forName("UTF-8")));
+                    len = inputStream.read(array);
+                }
+            } catch (IOException e) {
+                e.printStackTrace();
+            }
+        }
+
+        return buffer.toString();
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/util/StringHelper.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/util/StringHelper.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..920ce4228
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/util/StringHelper.java
@@ -0,0 +1,604 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+
+package org.onap.appc.util;
+
+import com.att.eelf.configuration.EELFLogger;
+import com.att.eelf.configuration.EELFManager;
+import java.util.Date;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Properties;
+import java.util.Set;
+import java.util.regex.Matcher;
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
+
+/**
+ * This class contains several static helper methods that can be used to perform string manipulation algorithms.
+ */
+
+public final class StringHelper {
+
+    private static final EELFLogger logger = EELFManager.getInstance().getLogger(StringHelper.class);
+
+    public static final String DASH = "-";
+    public static final String DOT = ".";
+    public static final String ELLIPSES = "...";
+    public static final String LINE_FEED = "\n";
+    public static final String SLASH = "/";
+    public static final String COMMA = ",";
+
+    /**
+     * Converts the specified string pattern to a regular expression string. If the supplied string is null or empty,
+     * then a regular expression that matches all strings (.*) is returned.
+     * <p>
+     * The expression passed to this method should not already be a regular expression. If it contains problematic
+     * meta-characters for this routine (such as period, asterisk, and plus), they will be escaped and matched literally
+     * in the resulting regular expression returned.
+     * </p>
+     *
+     * @param value
+     *            The pattern that we need to convert to a regular expression
+     * @return The regular expression that is equivalent to the pattern
+     */
+    public static String convertToRegex(String value) {
+        if (value == null || value.trim().length() == 0) {
+            return ".*";
+        }
+
+        StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(value.trim());
+
+        /*
+         * If there are any period characters, we need to escape them so that they are exactly matched
+         */
+        Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("\\.");
+        Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(builder);
+        int position = 0;
+        while (matcher.find(position)) {
+            builder.replace(matcher.start(), matcher.end(), "\\.");
+            position = matcher.end() + 1;
+        }
+
+        /*
+         * If there are any asterisks or pluses, which we need to interpret as wildcard characters, we need to convert
+         * them into .* or .
+         */
+        pattern = Pattern.compile("\\*|\\+");
+        matcher = pattern.matcher(builder);
+
+        /*
+         * If the string contains a .* meta-character sequence anywhere in the middle of the string (i.e., there are
+         * other characters following the .* meta-characters), OR the string ends with the .+ sequence, then we need to
+         * append the "end-of-line" boundary condition to the end of the string to get predictable results.
+         */
+        if (resolveAppendingEOL(builder, matcher)) {
+            builder.append("$");
+        }
+        return builder.toString();
+    }
+
+    private static boolean resolveAppendingEOL(StringBuilder builder, Matcher matcher) {
+        int position = 0;
+        boolean appendEOL = false;
+
+        while (matcher.find(position)) {
+            String metachar = builder.substring(matcher.start(), matcher.end());
+            if ("*".equals(metachar)) {
+                builder.replace(matcher.start(), matcher.end(), ".*");
+                position = matcher.end() + 1;
+                if (matcher.end() < builder.length() - 1) {
+                    appendEOL = true;
+                }
+            } else if ("+".equals(metachar)) {
+                builder.replace(matcher.start(), matcher.end(), ".");
+                position = matcher.end();
+                if (matcher.end() == builder.length()) {
+                    appendEOL = true;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return appendEOL;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Takes a string that may possibly be very long and return a string that is at most maxLength. If the string is
+     * longer than maxLength, the last three characters will be the ellipses (...) to indicate that the string was
+     * shortened.
+     *
+     * @param possiblyLongString
+     * @param maxLength
+     *            must be at least 4 (one character plus ellipses)
+     * @return possibly shortened string
+     */
+    public static String getShortenedString(String possiblyLongString, int maxLength) {
+        if ((possiblyLongString != null) && (maxLength > ELLIPSES.length())
+            && (possiblyLongString.length() > maxLength)) {
+            return possiblyLongString.substring(0, maxLength - ELLIPSES.length()) + ELLIPSES;
+
+        }
+        return possiblyLongString;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Determines that a provided string is not null and not empty (length = 0 after trimming)
+     *
+     * @param theString
+     *            The string to be tested
+     * @return true if the string IS NOT null and is NOT empty
+     */
+    public static boolean isNotNullNotEmpty(String theString) {
+        return theString != null && !theString.trim().isEmpty();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Determines that a provided string IS null or an empty string (length = 0 after trimming)
+     *
+     * @param theString
+     *            The string to be tested
+     * @return true if the string IS null OR is empty
+     */
+    public static boolean isNullOrEmpty(String theString) {
+        return theString == null || theString.trim().isEmpty();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns an indication if the first string is equal to the second string, allowing for either or both strings to
+     * be null.
+     *
+     * @param a
+     *            The first string to be compared
+     * @param b
+     *            The second string to be compared
+     * @return True if both strings are null, or both strings are non-null AND they are equal. False otherwise.
+     */
+    public static boolean areEqual(String a, String b) {
+        return areEqual(a, b, false);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns an indication if the first string is equal to the second string, allowing for either or both strings to
+     * be null, and ignoring case.
+     *
+     * @param a
+     *            The first string to be compared
+     * @param b
+     *            The second string to be compared
+     * @return True if both strings are null, or both strings are non-null AND they are equal (without regard to case).
+     *         False otherwise.
+     */
+    public static boolean equalsIgnoreCase(String a, String b) {
+        return areEqual(a, b, true);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Compares two strings (allowing either or both to be null), and allowing for optional case sensitive or
+     * insensitive comparison.
+     *
+     * @param a
+     *            The first string to be compared
+     * @param b
+     *            The second string to be compared
+     * @param caseInsensitive
+     *            True if the comparison is to be case in-sensitive.
+     * @return True if both strings are null, or both strings are non-null and they are equal
+     */
+    private static boolean areEqual(String a, String b, boolean caseInsensitive) {
+        if (a == null && b == null) {
+            return true;
+        }
+        if (a != null && b != null) {
+            if (caseInsensitive) {
+                return a.equalsIgnoreCase(b);
+            } else {
+                return a.equals(b);
+            }
+        }
+
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This method is used to mangle a name.
+     * <p>
+     * This method will first remove all unacceptable characters from the name and translate all characters to lower
+     * case. This is done to eliminate any potentially troublesome characters. If the resulting string is empty, then a
+     * random string of characters for the minimum desired length is returned. If the string is too short to meet the
+     * minimum length requirement, it is padded with random characters.
+     * </p>
+     * <p>
+     * Once the string has been scrubbed and possibly padded, it may be truncated (if longer than the maximum value) and
+     * the result is returned. To make the string as unique as possible, the algorithm removes excess letters from the
+     * center of the string, concatenating the first nad last parts of the name together. The assumption is that users
+     * tend to start the names of multiple things in similar ways, and get more descriptive as the name progresses. If
+     * for example, several objects were named "A test Object", "A test Object1", and "A test Object2", shortening the
+     * name only from the left does not generate a unique name.
+     * </p>
+     *
+     * @param name
+     *            The name to be mangled
+     * @param minLen
+     *            minimum number of characters for the name
+     * @param maxLen
+     *            maximum number of characters for the name
+     * @return The mangled name, or an empty string if the value is null or an empty string.
+     */
+    public static String mangleName(String name, int minLen, int maxLen) {
+        StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(name == null ? "" : name);
+        Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("[^a-z0-9]+", Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE);
+        Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(builder);
+        int position = 0;
+        while (matcher.find(position)) {
+            builder.delete(matcher.start(), matcher.end());
+            position = matcher.start();
+        }
+
+        if (builder.length() < minLen) {
+            for (int i = builder.length(); i <= minLen; i++) {
+                builder.append("A");
+            }
+        }
+
+        /*
+         * Remove out of the center of the name to preserve start and end and result in a string of max len
+         */
+        if (builder.length() > maxLen) {
+            int excess = builder.length() - maxLen;
+            int left = maxLen / 2;
+
+            builder.delete(left, excess + left);
+        }
+
+        return builder.toString().toLowerCase();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This method is used to normalize a string value.
+     * <p>
+     * This method will ensure that the string value is trimmed of all leading and trailing whitespace if not null. If
+     * it is null or an empty string, then it will return null.
+     * </p>
+     *
+     * @param value
+     *            The value to be normalized
+     * @return The normalized (no leading or trailing whitespace) value, or null if the string was null or an empty
+     *         string (or all whitespace). This method will never return an empty string.
+     */
+    public static String normalizeString(String value) {
+        if (value != null) {
+            String temp = value.trim();
+            if (temp.length() > 0) {
+                return temp;
+            }
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This method is used to strip all carriage returns and line feed characters from a string
+     *
+     * @param value
+     * @return The original value less all carriage returns and line feeds
+     */
+    public static String stripCRLF(String value) {
+
+        if (value == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+        String[] tokens = value.split("\r\n|\n\r|\r|\n");
+        StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
+        for (String token : tokens) {
+            builder.append(token.trim());
+        }
+        return builder.toString();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Converts UNIX-style line endings to DOS-style. Replaces LF with CR+LF as long as the LF does not already exist
+     * paired with a CR.
+     *
+     * @param content
+     *            The content to be converted
+     * @return The converted content.
+     */
+    public static String toDOSLines(String content) {
+        if (content == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+
+        StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(content);
+        Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("^(\n)[^\r]|[^\r](\n)[^\r]|[^\r](\n)$");
+        Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(builder);
+        int position = 0;
+        while (matcher.find(position)) {
+            int index = matcher.start(1);
+            if (index == -1) {
+                index = matcher.start(2);
+            }
+            if (index == -1) {
+                index = matcher.start(3);
+            }
+
+            builder.replace(index, index + 1, "\r\n");
+            position = index + 1;
+        }
+
+        return builder.toString();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This method will convert a string contents to use the UNIX-style line endings. That is, all occurrences of CR
+     * (Carriage Return) and LF (Line Feed) are reduced to just use LF.
+     *
+     * @param content
+     *            The buffer to be processed
+     * @return The converted contents
+     */
+    public static String toUnixLines(String content) {
+        if (content == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+
+        StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(content);
+        Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("\r\n|\n\r");
+        Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(builder);
+        int position = 0;
+        while (matcher.find(position)) {
+            builder.replace(matcher.start(), matcher.end(), "\n");
+            position = matcher.start();
+        }
+
+        return builder.toString();
+    }
+
+     /**
+     * This method is used to translate characters in the input sequence that match the characters in the match list to
+     * the corresponding character in the replacement list. If the replacement list is shorter than the match list, then
+     * the character from the replacement list is taken as the modulo of the match character position and the length of
+     * the replacement list.
+     *
+     * @param sequence
+     *            The input sequence to be processed
+     * @param match
+     *            The list of matching characters to be searched
+     * @param replacement
+     *            The list of replacement characters, positional coincident with the match list. If shorter than the
+     *            match list, then the position "wraps" around on the replacement list.
+     * @return The translated string contents.
+     */
+    public static Object translate(String sequence, String match, String replacement) {
+
+        if (sequence == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+
+        StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(sequence);
+
+        for (int index = 0; index < builder.length(); index++) {
+            char ch = builder.charAt(index);
+
+            int position = match.indexOf(ch);
+            if (position == -1) {
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            if (position >= replacement.length()) {
+                position %= replacement.length();
+            }
+            builder.setCharAt(index, replacement.charAt(position));
+        }
+
+        return builder.toString();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Ensures that the name provided is a valid identifier. This means that no spaces are allowed as well as special
+     * characters. This method translates all spaces and illegal characters to underscores (_).
+     *
+     * @param name
+     *            The name to be checked and converted to an identifier if needed
+     * @return The valid identifier from the name
+     */
+    public static String validIdentifier(String name) {
+        if (name == null || name.length() == 0) {
+            return name;
+        }
+        StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(name);
+        for (int index = 0; index < builder.length(); index++) {
+            char ch = builder.charAt(index);
+
+            if ((index == 0 && !Character.isJavaIdentifierStart(ch)) || (!Character.isJavaIdentifierPart(ch))) {
+                builder.setCharAt(index, '_');
+            }
+        }
+        return builder.toString();
+    }
+
+
+    /**
+     * Private constructor to prevent instantiation of this class - All methods are static!
+     */
+    private StringHelper() {
+
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This method verifies that the provided string only contains characters from the legal set, and replaces any
+     * character not in the legal set with the specified replacement character.
+     *
+     * @param sequence
+     *            The sequence to be verified
+     * @param legal
+     *            The set of all legal characters
+     * @param replacement
+     *            The replacement character if a character is not in the legal set
+     * @return The verified *and possibly updated) string
+     */
+    public static String verify(String sequence, String legal, char replacement) {
+        if (sequence == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+
+        StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(sequence);
+        for (int index = 0; index < builder.length(); index++) {
+            char ch = builder.charAt(index);
+            if (legal.indexOf(ch) == -1) {
+                builder.setCharAt(index, replacement);
+            }
+        }
+        return builder.toString();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @param list
+     *            The list of elements
+     * @return The list of elements formatted as a comma-delimited list
+     */
+    public static String asList(List<String> list) {
+        StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
+
+        if (list != null) {
+            if (list.size() == 1) {
+                builder.append(list.get(0));
+            } else {
+                for (String element : list) {
+                    builder.append(element);
+                    builder.append(", ");
+                }
+
+                if (builder.length() > 2) {
+                    builder.delete(builder.length() - 2, builder.length());
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return builder.toString();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @param map
+     *            A map of strings
+     * @return A map expressed as a comma-delimited list of name=value tuples
+     */
+    public static String asList(Map<String, String> map) {
+        StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
+        if (map != null) {
+            Set<String> keys = map.keySet();
+            for (String key : keys) {
+                builder.append(String.format("%s=%s, ", key, map.get(key)));
+            }
+
+            if (builder.length() > 2) {
+                builder.delete(builder.length() - 2, builder.length());
+            }
+        }
+        return builder.toString();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @param values
+     *            An array or varargs of Strings to be concatenated into a comma-separated list
+     * @return The comma-seprated list of values
+     */
+    public static String asList(String... values) {
+        StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
+        builder.append('[');
+        if (values != null && values.length > 0) {
+            int count = values.length;
+            for (int index = 0; index < count - 1; index++) {
+                builder.append(values[index]);
+                builder.append(',');
+            }
+            builder.append(values[count - 1]);
+        }
+        builder.append(']');
+        return builder.toString();
+    }
+
+    public static Object resolveToType(String input) {
+        String intRegex = "^(\\-)?[0-9]+$";
+        String doubleRegex = "^(\\-)?[0-9\\.]+$";
+        String boolRegex = "(^(?i)((true)|(false))$)";
+
+        // Check for null
+        if (input == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+
+        // Check int first
+        if (input.matches(intRegex)) {
+            try {
+                return Integer.parseInt(input);
+            } catch (NumberFormatException nfe) {
+                // Should not happen
+                logger.error(nfe.getMessage());
+            }
+        }
+
+        // Check double (int + decimal point)
+        if (input.matches(doubleRegex)) {
+            try {
+                return Double.parseDouble(input);
+            } catch (NumberFormatException | NullPointerException e) {
+                // NPE won't happen bc of regex check
+                logger.error("Parsing input failed", e);
+            }
+        }
+
+        // Check boolean
+        if (input.matches(boolRegex)) {
+            return Boolean.parseBoolean(input);
+        }
+
+        // Try to parse a date
+        Date date = Time.utcParse(input);
+        if (date != null) {
+            return date;
+        }
+
+        // No special type, return string
+        return input;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Converts a properties object to a string in the format of <pre>[ key=value, key=value, ... ]</pre>
+     *
+     * @param props
+     *            The properties object to format
+     * @return A string in the format <pre>[ key=value, ... ]</pre> or null if the input was null
+     */
+    public static String propertiesToString(Properties props) {
+        if (props == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+        StringBuilder out = new StringBuilder();
+        out.append("[");
+        for (Object key : props.keySet()) {
+            out.append(String.format(" %s = %s,", key.toString(), props.getProperty(key.toString())));
+        }
+        if (props.size() > 0) {
+            out.deleteCharAt(out.lastIndexOf(","));
+        }
+        out.append(" ]");
+        return out.toString();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/util/StructuredPropertyHelper.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/util/StructuredPropertyHelper.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5c18f3a1c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/util/StructuredPropertyHelper.java
@@ -0,0 +1,259 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+
+
+package org.onap.appc.util;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Properties;
+import java.util.regex.Matcher;
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
+
+/**
+ * This class is used to assemble properties that are defined using a structured name into groups, and allow them to be
+ * processed as sets of definitions.
+ * <p>
+ * For example, a structured name uses a dotted-notation, like "provider.name". Further, the nodes of the structured
+ * name may be serialized using a suffix ordinal number (e.g., "provider1.name"). These structured properties form a
+ * hierarchical name space where the names are grouped together and can be retrieved as a set.
+ * </p>
+ * 
+ */
+
+public class StructuredPropertyHelper {
+
+    /**
+     * This method scans the properties object for all properties that match the root name and constructs a list of
+     * structured property node graphs that represents the namespaces of the properties.
+     * <p>
+     * For example, assume that there are structured properties of the form "provider1.name", "provider2.name",
+     * "provider3.name", and so forth. There may also be other subordinate properties as well (e.g., "provider1.type").
+     * This method would construct a list of graphs of nodes, where each node represents one value of the structured
+     * name. The roots would be the values "provider1", "provider2", "provider3", and so forth. The values of the
+     * subordinate nodes would be the second, third, and so forth name nodes of the compound name. The value of the
+     * property is associated with nodes that are representative of the leaf of the name space.
+     * </p>
+     * 
+     * @param properties
+     *            The properties to be processed
+     * @param prefix
+     *            The prefix of the root structured property name
+     * @return The node graph of the properties
+     */
+    public static List<Node> getStructuredProperties(Properties properties, String prefix) {
+        List<Node> roots = new ArrayList<>();
+
+        for (String name : properties.stringPropertyNames()) {
+            if (name.startsWith(prefix)) {
+                String value = properties.getProperty(name);
+                processNamespace(roots, name, value);
+            }
+        }
+
+        return roots;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This method recursively walks the name space of the structured property and constructs the node graph to
+     * represent the property
+     * 
+     * @param nodes
+     *            The collection of nodes for the current level of the name space
+     * @param propertyName
+     *            The name of the node
+     * @param value
+     *            The value, if any
+     * @return The node for this level in the namespace
+     */
+    @SuppressWarnings("nls")
+    private static Node processNamespace(List<Node> nodes, String propertyName, String value) {
+        String[] tokens = propertyName.split("\\.", 2);
+        String nodeName = normalizeNodeName(tokens[0]);
+
+        Node namespaceNode = null;
+        for (Node node : nodes) {
+            if (node.getName().equals(nodeName)) {
+                namespaceNode = node;
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+        if (namespaceNode == null) {
+            namespaceNode = new Node();
+            namespaceNode.setName(nodeName);
+            nodes.add(namespaceNode);
+        }
+
+        if (tokens.length == 1 || tokens[1] == null || tokens[1].length() == 0) {
+            namespaceNode.setValue(value);
+        } else {
+            processNamespace(namespaceNode.getChildren(), tokens[1], value);
+        }
+
+        return namespaceNode;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This method normalizes a node name of the structured property name by removing leading and trailing whitespace,
+     * and by converting any ordinal position to a simple expression without leading zeroes.
+     * 
+     * @param token
+     *            The token to be normalized
+     * @return The normalized name, or null if the token was null;
+     */
+    @SuppressWarnings("nls")
+    private static String normalizeNodeName(String token) {
+        if (token == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+
+        StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer(token.trim());
+        Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("([^0-9]+)([0-9]*)");
+        Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(buffer);
+        if (matcher.matches()) {
+            String nameRoot = matcher.group(1);
+            String ordinal = matcher.group(2);
+            if (ordinal != null && ordinal.length() > 0) {
+                int i = Integer.parseInt(ordinal);
+                buffer.setLength(0);
+                buffer.append(nameRoot);
+                buffer.append(Integer.toString(i));
+            }
+        }
+        return buffer.toString();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This class represents a node in the structured property name space
+     *
+     */
+    public static class Node implements Comparable<Node> {
+
+        /**
+         * The name of the structured property node
+         */
+        private String name;
+
+        /**
+         * If the node is a leaf, then the value of the property
+         */
+        private String value;
+
+        /**
+         * If the node is not a leaf, then the sub-nodes of the property
+         */
+        private List<Node> children;
+
+        /**
+         * @return the value of name
+         */
+        public String getName() {
+            return name;
+        }
+
+        /**
+         * @param name
+         *            the value for name
+         */
+        public void setName(String name) {
+            this.name = name;
+        }
+
+        /**
+         * @return the value of value
+         */
+        public String getValue() {
+            return value;
+        }
+
+        /**
+         * @param value
+         *            the value for value
+         */
+        public void setValue(String value) {
+            this.value = value;
+        }
+
+        /**
+         * @return the value of children
+         */
+        public List<Node> getChildren() {
+            if (children == null) {
+                children = new ArrayList<>();
+            }
+            return children;
+        }
+
+        /**
+         * @see java.lang.Object#hashCode()
+         */
+        @Override
+        public int hashCode() {
+            return name.hashCode() + (value != null ? value.hashCode() : children.hashCode());
+        }
+
+        /**
+         * @see java.lang.Object#equals(java.lang.Object)
+         */
+        @Override
+        public boolean equals(Object obj) {
+            if (obj == null)
+                return false;
+            if (this.getClass() != obj.getClass())
+                return false;
+
+            Node other = (Node) obj;
+            boolean result = name.equals(other.name);
+
+            if (value == null) {
+                result &= other.value == null;
+            } else {
+                result &= value.equals(other.value);
+            }
+            if (children == null) {
+                result &= other.children == null;
+            } else {
+                result &= children.equals(other.children);
+            }
+            return result;
+        }
+
+        /**
+         * @see java.lang.Object#toString()
+         */
+        @SuppressWarnings("nls")
+        @Override
+        public String toString() {
+            if (value != null) {
+                return String.format("%s = %s", name, value);
+            }
+            return String.format("%s.%s", name, children.toString());
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public int compareTo(StructuredPropertyHelper.Node o) {
+            return name.compareTo(o.name);
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/util/Time.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/util/Time.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5e397701a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/util/Time.java
@@ -0,0 +1,599 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+
+
+package org.onap.appc.util;
+
+import java.sql.Timestamp;
+import java.text.DateFormat;
+import java.text.ParseException;
+import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Calendar;
+import java.util.Date;
+import java.util.GregorianCalendar;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Locale;
+import java.util.SimpleTimeZone;
+import java.util.TimeZone;
+import javax.xml.datatype.DatatypeConfigurationException;
+import javax.xml.datatype.DatatypeFactory;
+import javax.xml.datatype.XMLGregorianCalendar;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+/**
+ * This class is a general purpose helper class to augment standard Java time support.
+ *
+ */
+
+public final class Time {
+
+    /**
+     * Logger to log operations
+     */
+    private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Time.class);
+
+    /**
+     * A formatter to be used to format values
+     */
+    private static SimpleDateFormat dateformatter = null;
+
+    /**
+     * The UTC timezone (for UTC or GMT time)
+     */
+    @SuppressWarnings("nls")
+    private static final TimeZone utcTZ = TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC");
+
+    /**
+     * The cached reference to the datatype factory
+     */
+    private static DatatypeFactory xmlDatatypeFactory = null;
+
+    /**
+     * Private default constructor prevents instantiation
+     */
+    private Time() {
+        //
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Increments a date by the indicated months, days, hours, minutes, and seconds, and returns the
+     * updated date.
+     *
+     * @param date The date to be manipulated
+     * @param months The number of months to be added to the date
+     * @param days The number of days to be added to the date
+     * @param hours The number of hours to be added to the date
+     * @param minutes The number of minutes to be added to the date
+     * @param seconds The number of seconds to be added to the date
+     * @return The updated date.
+     */
+    public static Date addTime(final Date date, final int months, final int days, final int hours,
+            final int minutes, final int seconds) {
+        Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
+        cal.setTime(date);
+        cal.add(Calendar.MONTH, months);
+        cal.add(Calendar.DATE, days);
+        cal.add(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, hours);
+        cal.add(Calendar.MINUTE, minutes);
+        cal.add(Calendar.SECOND, seconds);
+        return cal.getTime();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Clears the time components of a calendar to zero, leaving the date components unchanged.
+     *
+     * @param cal the calendar to be updated
+     * @return The updated calendar object
+     */
+    public static Calendar dateOnly(final Calendar cal) {
+        cal.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 0);
+        cal.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0);
+        cal.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);
+        cal.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0);
+        return cal;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This method returns the local time that corresponds to the end of the current day
+     *
+     * @return The time that corresponds to the end of the current day, expressed as local time
+     */
+    public static Date endOfDayLocal() {
+        return endOfDayLocal(new Date());
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This method returns the last moment of the day for the supplied local time. This is defined
+     * as the millisecond before midnight of the current date represented by the local time.
+     *
+     * @param localTime The local time for which the last moment of the day is desired.
+     * @return The millisecond prior to midnight, local time.
+     */
+    public static Date endOfDayLocal(final Date localTime) {
+        // @sonar:off
+        GregorianCalendar calendar = new GregorianCalendar();
+        calendar.setTime(localTime);
+        calendar.set(Calendar.HOUR, 11);
+        calendar.set(Calendar.AM_PM, Calendar.PM);
+        calendar.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 59);
+        calendar.set(Calendar.SECOND, 59);
+        calendar.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 999);
+        // @sonar:on
+
+        return calendar.getTime();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The end of the current day and in the current time zone expressed as a UTC time.
+     *
+     * @return The UTC time that corresponds to the end of the current day
+     */
+    public static Date endOfDayUTC() {
+        return endOfDayUTC(new Date());
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the UTC time that corresponds to the end of the day for the local time specified,
+     * using the current (default) time zone.
+     *
+     * @param localTime The local time for which we are requesting the UTC time that corresponds to
+     *        the end of the day
+     * @return The UTC time that corresponds to the end of the local day specified by the local
+     *         time.
+     */
+    public static Date endOfDayUTC(final Date localTime) {
+        return endOfDayUTC(localTime, TimeZone.getDefault());
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the time expressed in UTC time of the end of the day specified in local time and
+     * within the local time zone.
+     *
+     * @param localTime The local time for which we will compute the end of the local day, and then
+     *        convert to UTC time.
+     * @param localTimeZone The time zone that the local time is within.
+     * @return The UTC date that corresponds to the end of the day local time and in the local time
+     *         zone.
+     */
+    public static Date endOfDayUTC(final Date localTime, final TimeZone localTimeZone) {
+        Date endOfDay = endOfDayLocal(localTime);
+        return utcDate(endOfDay, localTimeZone);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * returns current Date in 'UTC' Timezone
+     *
+     * @return The current date, expressed in the UTC timezone.
+     */
+    @SuppressWarnings("nls")
+    public static Date getCurrentUTCDate() {
+
+        // This code incorrectly changes the default timezone for the entire JVM in order to compute
+        // the UTC
+        // date for the current time.
+
+        GregorianCalendar calendar = new GregorianCalendar();
+        calendar.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
+        calendar.setTimeInMillis(utcTime());
+        return calendar.getTime();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This method loads and caches the reference to the XML data type factory object.
+     *
+     * @return The XML Data Type Factory object
+     */
+    public static DatatypeFactory getDatatypeFactory() {
+        if (xmlDatatypeFactory == null) {
+            try {
+                xmlDatatypeFactory = DatatypeFactory.newInstance();
+            } catch (DatatypeConfigurationException e) {
+                e.printStackTrace(System.err);
+            }
+        }
+        return xmlDatatypeFactory;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gives the date-time String based on given Locale and Timezone
+     *
+     * @param date The date to be formatted
+     * @param locale The locale that we want to format the value for
+     * @param timezone The time zone that the date is within
+     * @return The formatted value
+     */
+    public static String getDateByLocaleAndTimeZone(final Date date, final Locale locale,
+            final TimeZone timezone) {
+        String strDate = null;
+        DateFormat df =
+                DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(DateFormat.MEDIUM, DateFormat.MEDIUM, locale);
+        df.setTimeZone(timezone);
+        synchronized (df) {
+            strDate = df.format(date);
+        }
+        return strDate;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns singleton UTC date formatter.
+     *
+     * @return
+     */
+    @SuppressWarnings("nls")
+    private static SimpleDateFormat getDateFormatter() {
+        if (dateformatter == null) {
+            dateformatter = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss");
+            dateformatter.setTimeZone(new SimpleTimeZone(SimpleTimeZone.UTC_TIME, "UTC"));
+        }
+        return dateformatter;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This method returns the local time that corresponds to a given UTC time in the current time
+     * zone.
+     *
+     * @param utcTime The UTC time for which we desire the equivalent local time in the current time
+     *        zone.
+     * @return The local time that is equivalent to the given UTC time for the current time zone
+     */
+    public static long localTime(final long utcTime) {
+        return localTime(utcTime, TimeZone.getDefault());
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This method can be used to get the local time that corresponds to a specific UTC time.
+     * <p>
+     * This method has a problem since the offset can only be determined by having a local time. So,
+     * we take the UTC time and add the raw offset to it to come up with an approximation of the
+     * local time. This gives us a local time that we can use to determine what the offset should
+     * be, which is what we actually add to the UTC time to get the local time.
+     * </p>
+     *
+     * @param utcTime The UTC time for which we want to obtain the equivalent local time
+     * @param localTZ The time zone that we want the local time to be within
+     * @return The local time for the specified time zone and the given UTC time
+     */
+    public static long localTime(final long utcTime, final TimeZone localTZ) {
+        int offset = localTZ.getOffset(utcTime + localTZ.getRawOffset());
+        long result = utcTime + offset;
+
+        return result;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Sets the date components of a calendar to the specified values, leaving the time components
+     * unchanged.
+     *
+     * @param cal The calendar to be updated
+     * @param year The year to be set
+     * @param month The month to be set
+     * @param day The day to be set
+     * @return The updated calendar object
+     */
+    public static Calendar setDate(final Calendar cal, final int year, final int month,
+            final int day) {
+        cal.set(Calendar.YEAR, year);
+        cal.set(Calendar.MONTH, month);
+        cal.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, day);
+        return cal;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the start of the day expressed in local time for the current local time.
+     *
+     * @return The start of the day
+     */
+    public static Date startOfDayLocal() {
+        return startOfDayLocal(new Date());
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This method returns the date that corresponds to the start of the day local time. The date
+     * returned represents midnight of the previous day represented in local time. If the UTC time
+     * is desired, use the methods {@link #startOfDayUTC(Date, TimeZone)},
+     * {@link #startOfDayUTC(Date)}, or {@link #startOfDayUTC()}
+     *
+     * @param localTime The local date that we wish to compute the start of day for.
+     * @return The date that corresponds to the start of the local day
+     */
+    public static Date startOfDayLocal(final Date localTime) {
+        GregorianCalendar calendar = new GregorianCalendar();
+        calendar.setTime(localTime);
+        calendar.set(Calendar.HOUR, 0);
+        calendar.set(Calendar.AM_PM, Calendar.AM);
+        calendar.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0);
+        calendar.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);
+        calendar.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0);
+
+        return calendar.getTime();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This method returns the UTC date that corresponds to the start of the local day based on the
+     * current time and the default time zone (the time zone we are running in).
+     *
+     * @return The start of the local day expressed as a UTC time.
+     */
+    public static Date startOfDayUTC() {
+        return startOfDayUTC(new Date());
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This method returns the UTC date that corresponds to the start of the local day specified in
+     * the current time zone.
+     *
+     * @param localTime The local time to be used to compute the start of the day
+     * @return The start of the local day expressed as a UTC time.
+     */
+    public static Date startOfDayUTC(final Date localTime) {
+        return startOfDayUTC(localTime, TimeZone.getDefault());
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This method returns the UTC date that corresponds to the start of the local day specified in
+     * the local timezone.
+     *
+     * @param localTime The local time to be used to compute start of day
+     * @param localTimeZone The time zone that the local time was recorded within
+     * @return The corresponding UTC date
+     */
+    public static Date startOfDayUTC(final Date localTime, final TimeZone localTimeZone) {
+        Date startOfDay = startOfDayLocal(localTime);
+        return utcDate(startOfDay, localTimeZone);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This method creates and returns an XML timestamp expressed as the current UTC value for the
+     * system. The caller does not specify the time value or time zone using this method. This
+     * ensures that the timestamp value is always expressed as UTC time.
+     *
+     * @return The XMLGregorianCalendar that can be used to record the timestamp
+     */
+
+    public static XMLGregorianCalendar timestamp() {
+        getDatatypeFactory();
+        XMLGregorianCalendar ts = xmlDatatypeFactory.newXMLGregorianCalendar();
+        GregorianCalendar utc = new GregorianCalendar();
+        utc.setTime(utcDate());
+        ts.setTimezone(0);
+        ts.setYear(utc.get(Calendar.YEAR));
+        // Calendar Months are from 0-11 need to +1
+        ts.setMonth(utc.get(Calendar.MONTH) + 1);
+        ts.setDay(utc.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH));
+        ts.setHour(utc.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY));
+        ts.setMinute(utc.get(Calendar.MINUTE));
+        ts.setSecond(utc.get(Calendar.SECOND));
+        ts.setMillisecond(utc.get(Calendar.MILLISECOND));
+        return ts;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Converts XMLGregorianCalendar to java.util.Date in Java
+     *
+     * @param calendar the calendar object to be converted
+     * @return The equivalent Date object
+     */
+    public static Date toDate(final XMLGregorianCalendar calendar) {
+        if (calendar == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+        return calendar.toGregorianCalendar().getTime();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Converts java Date to XMLGregorianCalendar.
+     *
+     * @param date The date to convert
+     * @return The XMLGregorianCalendar for the specified date
+     */
+    @SuppressWarnings("nls")
+    public static XMLGregorianCalendar toXMLCalendar(final Date date) {
+        GregorianCalendar cal = (GregorianCalendar) Calendar.getInstance();
+        cal.setTime(date);
+
+        XMLGregorianCalendar xmlCal = null;
+        try {
+            xmlCal = DatatypeFactory.newInstance().newXMLGregorianCalendar(cal);
+        } catch (DatatypeConfigurationException e) {
+            LOG.error("toXMLCalendar", e);
+        }
+        return xmlCal;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Truncates the provided date so that only the date, hours, and minutes portions are
+     * significant. This method returns the date with the seconds and milliseconds forced to zero.
+     *
+     * @param date The date to truncate
+     * @return The date with only the year, month, day, hours, and minutes significant.
+     */
+    public static Date truncDate(final Date date) {
+        Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
+        cal.setTime(date);
+        cal.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);
+        cal.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0);
+        return cal.getTime();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The UTC date that corresponds to the current date in the local time zone.
+     *
+     * @return The UTC date for now in the current time zone.
+     */
+    public static Date utcDate() {
+        return new Date();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The UTC date for the specified date in the current (default) time zone.
+     *
+     * @param date The local date for which the UTC date is desired.
+     * @return The UTC date that corresponds to the date in the current time zone.
+     */
+    public static Date utcDate(final Date date) {
+        TimeZone tz = TimeZone.getDefault();
+        return utcDate(date, tz);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the UTC date for the specified date in the specified time zone.
+     *
+     * @param date The date for which the UTC date is desired in the specified zone
+     * @param tz The time zone that corresponds to the date to be converted to UTC
+     * @return The UTC date that corresponds to the local date in the local time zone.
+     */
+    public static Date utcDate(final Date date, final TimeZone tz) {
+        return new Date(utcTime(date.getTime(), tz));
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Format incoming date as string in GMT or UTC.
+     *
+     * @param dt The date to be formatted
+     * @return The date formatted for UTC timezone
+     */
+    public static String utcFormat(final Date dt) {
+        String strDate = null;
+        DateFormat df = getDateFormatter();
+        synchronized (df) {
+            strDate = df.format(dt);
+        }
+        return strDate;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Parse previously formated Date object back to a Date object.
+     *
+     * @param dateStr The representation of a UTC date as a string
+     * @return The date object containing the parsed representation, or null if the representation
+     *         cannot be parsed
+     */
+    @SuppressWarnings("nls")
+    public static Date utcParse(final String dateStr) {
+        String[] adtl = {"yyyy-MM-dd"};
+        return utcParse(dateStr, adtl);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Parse previously formated Date object back to a Date object.
+     *
+     * @param dateStr The representation of a UTC date as a string
+     * @param adtlFormatStrings A list of strings that represent additional date format
+     *        representations to try and parse.
+     * @return The date object containing the parsed representation, or null if the representation
+     *         cannot be parsed
+     */
+    @SuppressWarnings("nls")
+    public static Date utcParse(final String dateStr, String... adtlFormatStrings) {
+        if (dateStr != null) {
+            // Build the list of formatters starting with the default defined in the class
+            List<DateFormat> formats = new ArrayList<>();
+            formats.add(getDateFormatter());
+
+            if (adtlFormatStrings != null) {
+                for (String s : adtlFormatStrings) {
+                    formats.add(new SimpleDateFormat(s));
+                }
+            }
+
+            // Return the first matching date formatter's result
+            for (DateFormat df : formats) {
+                df.setTimeZone(utcTZ);
+                try {
+                    return df.parse(dateStr);
+                } catch (ParseException e) {
+                    LOG.debug(String.format("IGNORE - Date string [%s] does not fit pattern [%s]",
+                            dateStr, df.toString()));
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This method returns the current time for the UTC timezone
+     *
+     * @return The time in the UTC time zone that corresponds to the current local time.
+     */
+    public static long utcTime() {
+        return new Date().getTime();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Get the UTC time that corresponds to the given time in the default time zone (current time
+     * zone for the system).
+     *
+     * @param localTime The time in the current time zone for which the UTC time is desired.
+     * @return The UTC time
+     */
+    public static long utcTime(final long localTime) {
+        TimeZone tz = TimeZone.getDefault();
+        return utcTime(localTime, tz);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Get the UTC time that corresponds to the given time in the specified timezone.
+     * <p>
+     * Note that the java <code>getOffset()</code> method works a little counter-intuitive. It
+     * returns the offset that would be added to the current UTC time to get the LOCAL time
+     * represented by the local time zone. That means to get the UTC time, we need to SUBTRACT this
+     * offset from the local time.
+     * </p>
+     *
+     * @param localTime The time in the specified time zone for which the UTC time is desired.
+     * @param localTZ The time zone which the local time is in.
+     * @return The UTC time for the specified local time in the specified local time zone.
+     */
+    public static long utcTime(final long localTime, final TimeZone localTZ) {
+        int offset = localTZ.getOffset(localTime);
+        return localTime - offset;
+
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Creates a timestamp value from a time
+     *
+     * @param utcTime The UTC time to convert to a timestamp
+     * @return The timestamp
+     */
+    public static Timestamp utcTimestamp(final long utcTime) {
+        TimeZone tz = TimeZone.getDefault();
+        return new Timestamp(utcTime(utcTime, tz));
+    }
+
+    public static String dateToStringConverterMillis(Date date) {
+        SimpleDateFormat customDate = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss:SSS");
+        if (date != null) {
+            return customDate.format(date);
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    public static Date stringToDateConverterMillis(String dateString) throws ParseException {
+        SimpleDateFormat customDate = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss:SSS");
+        return customDate.parse(dateString);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/util/UnmodifiableProperties.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/util/UnmodifiableProperties.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6d20b64a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/util/UnmodifiableProperties.java
@@ -0,0 +1,355 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+
+
+package org.onap.appc.util;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.io.PrintStream;
+import java.io.PrintWriter;
+import java.io.Reader;
+import java.io.Writer;
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.Enumeration;
+import java.util.InvalidPropertiesFormatException;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Properties;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+/**
+ * This utility class is used to wrap a properties object and to delegate all read operations to the property object,
+ * while disallowing any write or modification to the property object.
+ * 
+ */
+public class UnmodifiableProperties extends Properties implements Cloneable {
+
+    /**
+     * Serial number
+     */
+    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
+
+    private static final String PROPERTY_CANNOT_BE_MODIFIED_MSG = "Property cannot be modified!";
+
+    /**
+     * The properties object which we are wrapping
+     */
+    private Properties properties;
+
+    /**
+     * Create the unmodifiable wrapper around the provided properties object
+     * 
+     * @param properties
+     *            The properties to be wrapped and protected from modification
+     */
+    public UnmodifiableProperties(Properties properties) {
+        this.properties = properties;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see java.util.Hashtable#clear()
+     */
+    @Override
+    public synchronized void clear() {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException(PROPERTY_CANNOT_BE_MODIFIED_MSG);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see java.util.Hashtable#clone()
+     */
+    // @sonar:off
+    @Override
+    public synchronized Object clone() {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException(PROPERTY_CANNOT_BE_MODIFIED_MSG);
+    }
+
+    // @sonar:on
+
+    /**
+     * @see java.util.Hashtable#contains(java.lang.Object)
+     */
+    @Override
+    public synchronized boolean contains(Object value) {
+        return properties.contains(value);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see java.util.Hashtable#containsKey(java.lang.Object)
+     */
+    @Override
+    public synchronized boolean containsKey(Object key) {
+        return properties.containsKey(key);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see java.util.Hashtable#containsValue(java.lang.Object)
+     */
+    @Override
+    public boolean containsValue(Object value) {
+        return properties.containsValue(value);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see java.util.Hashtable#elements()
+     */
+    @Override
+    public synchronized Enumeration<Object> elements() {
+        return properties.elements();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see java.util.Hashtable#entrySet()
+     */
+    @Override
+    public Set<java.util.Map.Entry<Object, Object>> entrySet() {
+        return Collections.unmodifiableSet(properties.entrySet());
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see java.util.Hashtable#equals(java.lang.Object)
+     */
+    @Override
+    public synchronized boolean equals(Object o) {
+        return properties.equals(o);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see java.util.Hashtable#get(java.lang.Object)
+     */
+    @Override
+    public synchronized Object get(Object key) {
+        return properties.get(key);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see java.util.Properties#getProperty(java.lang.String)
+     */
+    @Override
+    public String getProperty(String key) {
+        return properties.getProperty(key);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see java.util.Properties#getProperty(java.lang.String, java.lang.String)
+     */
+    @Override
+    public String getProperty(String key, String defaultValue) {
+        return properties.getProperty(key, defaultValue);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see java.util.Hashtable#hashCode()
+     */
+    @Override
+    public synchronized int hashCode() {
+        return properties.hashCode();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see java.util.Hashtable#isEmpty()
+     */
+    @Override
+    public synchronized boolean isEmpty() {
+        return properties.isEmpty();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see java.util.Hashtable#keys()
+     */
+    @Override
+    public synchronized Enumeration<Object> keys() {
+        return properties.keys();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see java.util.Hashtable#keySet()
+     */
+    @Override
+    public Set<Object> keySet() {
+        return Collections.unmodifiableSet(properties.keySet());
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see java.util.Properties#list(java.io.PrintStream)
+     */
+    @Override
+    public void list(PrintStream out) {
+        properties.list(out);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see java.util.Properties#list(java.io.PrintWriter)
+     */
+    @Override
+    public void list(PrintWriter out) {
+        properties.list(out);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see java.util.Properties#load(java.io.InputStream)
+     */
+    @Override
+    public synchronized void load(InputStream inStream) throws IOException {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException(PROPERTY_CANNOT_BE_MODIFIED_MSG);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see java.util.Properties#load(java.io.Reader)
+     */
+    @Override
+    public synchronized void load(Reader reader) throws IOException {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException(PROPERTY_CANNOT_BE_MODIFIED_MSG);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see java.util.Properties#loadFromXML(java.io.InputStream)
+     */
+    @Override
+    public synchronized void loadFromXML(InputStream in) throws IOException, InvalidPropertiesFormatException {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException(PROPERTY_CANNOT_BE_MODIFIED_MSG);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see java.util.Properties#propertyNames()
+     */
+    @Override
+    public Enumeration<?> propertyNames() {
+        return properties.propertyNames();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see java.util.Hashtable#put(java.lang.Object, java.lang.Object)
+     */
+    @Override
+    public synchronized Object put(Object key, Object value) {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException(PROPERTY_CANNOT_BE_MODIFIED_MSG);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see java.util.Hashtable#putAll(java.util.Map)
+     */
+    @Override
+    public synchronized void putAll(Map<? extends Object, ? extends Object> t) {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException(PROPERTY_CANNOT_BE_MODIFIED_MSG);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see java.util.Hashtable#rehash()
+     */
+    @Override
+    protected void rehash() {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException(PROPERTY_CANNOT_BE_MODIFIED_MSG);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see java.util.Hashtable#remove(java.lang.Object)
+     */
+    @Override
+    public synchronized Object remove(Object key) {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException(PROPERTY_CANNOT_BE_MODIFIED_MSG);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see java.util.Properties#save(java.io.OutputStream, java.lang.String)
+     */
+    @Override
+    @Deprecated
+    public synchronized void save(OutputStream out, String comments) {
+        properties.save(out, comments);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see java.util.Properties#setProperty(java.lang.String, java.lang.String)
+     */
+    @Override
+    public synchronized Object setProperty(String key, String value) {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException(PROPERTY_CANNOT_BE_MODIFIED_MSG);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see java.util.Hashtable#size()
+     */
+    @Override
+    public synchronized int size() {
+        return properties.size();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see java.util.Properties#store(java.io.OutputStream, java.lang.String)
+     */
+    @Override
+    public void store(OutputStream out, String comments) throws IOException {
+        properties.store(out, comments);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see java.util.Properties#store(java.io.Writer, java.lang.String)
+     */
+    @Override
+    public void store(Writer writer, String comments) throws IOException {
+        properties.store(writer, comments);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see java.util.Properties#storeToXML(java.io.OutputStream, java.lang.String)
+     */
+    @Override
+    public synchronized void storeToXML(OutputStream os, String comment) throws IOException {
+        properties.storeToXML(os, comment);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see java.util.Properties#storeToXML(java.io.OutputStream, java.lang.String, java.lang.String)
+     */
+    @Override
+    public synchronized void storeToXML(OutputStream os, String comment, String encoding) throws IOException {
+        properties.storeToXML(os, comment, encoding);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see java.util.Properties#stringPropertyNames()
+     */
+    @Override
+    public Set<String> stringPropertyNames() {
+        return properties.stringPropertyNames();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see java.util.Hashtable#toString()
+     */
+    @Override
+    public synchronized String toString() {
+        return properties.toString();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @see java.util.Hashtable#values()
+     */
+    @Override
+    public Collection<Object> values() {
+        return Collections.unmodifiableCollection(properties.values());
+    }
+}
diff --git a/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/util/httpClient.java b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/util/httpClient.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a2ce8af2a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/appc-core/appc-common-bundle/java/org/onap/appc/util/httpClient.java
@@ -0,0 +1,205 @@
+/*-
+ * ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
+ * ONAP : APPC
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+ * ================================================================================
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Amdocs
+ * =============================================================================
+ * 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.
+ * 
+ * ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+ */
+
+package org.onap.appc.util;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
+import java.net.MalformedURLException;
+import java.net.URL;
+import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
+import org.apache.http.HttpStatus;
+import org.apache.http.auth.AuthScope;
+import org.apache.http.auth.UsernamePasswordCredentials;
+import org.apache.http.client.CredentialsProvider;
+import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpDelete;
+import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
+import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
+import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPut;
+import org.apache.http.entity.StringEntity;
+import org.apache.http.impl.client.BasicCredentialsProvider;
+import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
+import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
+import org.onap.appc.configuration.Configuration;
+import org.onap.appc.configuration.ConfigurationFactory;
+import org.onap.appc.exceptions.APPCException;
+import com.att.eelf.configuration.EELFLogger;
+import com.att.eelf.configuration.EELFManager;
+
+
+public class httpClient {
+
+    private static final EELFLogger logger = EELFManager.getInstance().getLogger(httpClient.class);
+
+    private static Configuration configuration = ConfigurationFactory.getConfiguration();
+
+    @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
+    public static int postMethod(String protocol, String ip, int port, String path, String payload,
+            String contentType) throws APPCException {
+
+        logger.info("Sending POST request to " + path);
+
+        HttpPost post;
+        try {
+
+            URL serviceUrl = new URL(protocol, ip, port, path);
+            post = new HttpPost(serviceUrl.toExternalForm());
+            post.setHeader("Content-Type", contentType);
+
+            StringEntity entity = new StringEntity(payload);
+            entity.setContentType(contentType);
+            post.setEntity(new StringEntity(payload));
+        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException | MalformedURLException e) {
+            throw new APPCException(e);
+        }
+
+        logger.debug("Sending request " + post);
+
+        CredentialsProvider credsProvider = new BasicCredentialsProvider();
+        credsProvider.setCredentials(new AuthScope(ip, port), new UsernamePasswordCredentials(
+                configuration.getProperty("username"), configuration.getProperty("password")));
+        CloseableHttpClient client =
+                HttpClients.custom().setDefaultCredentialsProvider(credsProvider).build();
+
+        int httpCode;
+        try {
+            HttpResponse response = client.execute(post);
+            httpCode = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new APPCException(e);
+        }
+        return httpCode;
+    }
+
+    @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
+    public static int putMethod(String protocol, String ip, int port, String path, String payload,
+            String contentType) throws APPCException {
+
+        logger.info("Sending PUT request to " + path);
+
+        HttpPut put;
+        try {
+
+            URL serviceUrl = new URL(protocol, ip, port, path);
+            put = new HttpPut(serviceUrl.toExternalForm());
+            put.setHeader("Content-Type", contentType);
+
+            StringEntity entity = new StringEntity(payload);
+            entity.setContentType(contentType);
+            put.setEntity(new StringEntity(payload));
+        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException | MalformedURLException e) {
+            throw new APPCException(e);
+        }
+
+        logger.debug("Sending request " + put);
+
+        CredentialsProvider credsProvider = new BasicCredentialsProvider();
+        credsProvider.setCredentials(new AuthScope(ip, port), new UsernamePasswordCredentials(
+                configuration.getProperty("username"), configuration.getProperty("password")));
+        CloseableHttpClient client =
+                HttpClients.custom().setDefaultCredentialsProvider(credsProvider).build();
+
+        int httpCode;
+        try {
+            HttpResponse response = client.execute(put);
+            httpCode = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new APPCException(e);
+        }
+        return httpCode;
+    }
+
+    @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
+    public static String getMethod(String protocol, String ip, int port, String path,
+            String contentType) throws APPCException {
+
+        logger.info("Sending GET request to " + path);
+
+        HttpGet get;
+        try {
+
+            URL serviceUrl = new URL(protocol, ip, port, path);
+            get = new HttpGet(serviceUrl.toExternalForm());
+            get.setHeader("Content-Type", contentType);
+        } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
+            throw new APPCException(e);
+        }
+
+        logger.debug("Sending request " + get);
+
+        CredentialsProvider credsProvider = new BasicCredentialsProvider();
+        credsProvider.setCredentials(new AuthScope(ip, port), new UsernamePasswordCredentials(
+                configuration.getProperty("username"), configuration.getProperty("password")));
+        CloseableHttpClient client =
+                HttpClients.custom().setDefaultCredentialsProvider(credsProvider).build();
+
+        int httpCode;
+        String result;
+
+        try {
+            HttpResponse response = client.execute(get);
+            httpCode = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
+            result = (httpCode == HttpStatus.SC_OK) ? response.getEntity().toString() : null;
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new APPCException(e);
+        }
+
+        return result;
+    }
+
+    @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
+    public static int deleteMethod(String protocol, String ip, int port, String path,
+            String contentType) throws APPCException {
+
+        logger.info("Sending DELETE request to " + path);
+
+        HttpDelete delete;
+        try {
+
+            URL serviceUrl = new URL(protocol, ip, port, path);
+            delete = new HttpDelete(serviceUrl.toExternalForm());
+            delete.setHeader("Content-Type", contentType);
+        } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
+            throw new APPCException(e);
+        }
+
+        logger.debug("Sending request " + delete);
+
+        CredentialsProvider credsProvider = new BasicCredentialsProvider();
+        credsProvider.setCredentials(new AuthScope(ip, port), new UsernamePasswordCredentials(
+                configuration.getProperty("username"), configuration.getProperty("password")));
+        CloseableHttpClient client =
+                HttpClients.custom().setDefaultCredentialsProvider(credsProvider).build();
+
+        int httpCode;
+
+        try {
+            HttpResponse response = client.execute(delete);
+            httpCode = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new APPCException(e);
+        }
+
+        return httpCode;
+    }
+}