diff --git a/pdb-ui/build.gradle b/pdb-ui/build.gradle
index 3bdcb4d..02e4ac5 100644
--- a/pdb-ui/build.gradle
+++ b/pdb-ui/build.gradle
@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@ apply plugin: 'application'
 
 
 mainClassName = "org.lucares.pdbui.PdbWebapp"
+applicationDefaultJvmArgs = [
+	"-Dspring.profiles.active=production", 
+	"-Dspring.config.location=.",
+	"-Ddb.base=data"
+	]
 
 dependencies {
 	compile project(':performanceDb')
@@ -14,4 +19,8 @@ dependencies {
 	compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-log4j2:1.5.2.RELEASE")
 	
 	testCompile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test:1.5.2.RELEASE")
+}
+
+jar {
+    exclude 'application-dev.properties'
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pdb-ui/src/main/java/org/lucares/pdbui/Ingestion.java b/pdb-ui/src/main/java/org/lucares/pdbui/Ingestion.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..08bc4bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pdb-ui/src/main/java/org/lucares/pdbui/Ingestion.java
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+package org.lucares.pdbui;
+
+import javax.annotation.PostConstruct;
+
+import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
+
+@Component
+public class Ingestion {
+
+	private final Ingestor tcpIngestor;
+
+	public Ingestion(final Ingestor tcpIngestor) {
+		this.tcpIngestor = tcpIngestor;
+	}
+
+	@PostConstruct
+	public void start() throws Exception {
+		tcpIngestor.start();
+	}
+
+}
diff --git a/pdb-ui/src/main/java/org/lucares/pdbui/Ingestor.java b/pdb-ui/src/main/java/org/lucares/pdbui/Ingestor.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f6577c3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pdb-ui/src/main/java/org/lucares/pdbui/Ingestor.java
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+package org.lucares.pdbui;
+
+public interface Ingestor {
+
+	void start() throws Exception;
+
+}
diff --git a/pdb-ui/src/main/java/org/lucares/pdbui/MySpringConfiguration.java b/pdb-ui/src/main/java/org/lucares/pdbui/MySpringConfiguration.java
index 445de46..bd764da 100644
--- a/pdb-ui/src/main/java/org/lucares/pdbui/MySpringConfiguration.java
+++ b/pdb-ui/src/main/java/org/lucares/pdbui/MySpringConfiguration.java
@@ -2,12 +2,11 @@ package org.lucares.pdbui;
 
 import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
 import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
-import org.springframework.context.annotation.PropertySource;
+import org.springframework.scheduling.annotation.EnableAsync;
 
 @Configuration
+@EnableAsync
 @ComponentScan("org.lucares.pdbui")
-@PropertySource("classpath:/config.system.properties")
-@PropertySource("classpath:/config.user.properties")
 public class MySpringConfiguration {
 
 }
diff --git a/pdb-ui/src/main/java/org/lucares/pdbui/PdbRepository.java b/pdb-ui/src/main/java/org/lucares/pdbui/PdbRepository.java
index bc50194..a7b927e 100644
--- a/pdb-ui/src/main/java/org/lucares/pdbui/PdbRepository.java
+++ b/pdb-ui/src/main/java/org/lucares/pdbui/PdbRepository.java
@@ -6,16 +6,23 @@ import java.util.List;
 
 import org.lucares.ludb.Proposal;
 import org.lucares.performance.db.PerformanceDb;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.DisposableBean;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Value;
 import org.springframework.stereotype.Repository;
 
 @Repository
 public class PdbRepository implements DisposableBean {
+	private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(PdbRepository.class);
+
 	private final PerformanceDb db;
 
 	public PdbRepository(@Value("${db.base}") final String dbBaseDir) {
 		final Path dataDirectory = Paths.get(dbBaseDir);
+
+		LOGGER.info("using database in {}", dataDirectory.toAbsolutePath());
+
 		this.db = new PerformanceDb(dataDirectory);
 	}
 
diff --git a/pdb-plotting/src/main/java/org/lucares/recommind/logs/TcpIngestor.java b/pdb-ui/src/main/java/org/lucares/pdbui/TcpIngestor.java
similarity index 91%
rename from pdb-plotting/src/main/java/org/lucares/recommind/logs/TcpIngestor.java
rename to pdb-ui/src/main/java/org/lucares/pdbui/TcpIngestor.java
index ae969cb..ca2e293 100644
--- a/pdb-plotting/src/main/java/org/lucares/recommind/logs/TcpIngestor.java
+++ b/pdb-ui/src/main/java/org/lucares/pdbui/TcpIngestor.java
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-package org.lucares.recommind.logs;
+package org.lucares.pdbui;
 
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.IOException;
@@ -20,19 +20,27 @@ import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;
 
+import javax.annotation.PreDestroy;
+
 import org.lucares.pdb.api.Entry;
 import org.lucares.pdb.api.Tags;
 import org.lucares.performance.db.BlockingQueueIterator;
 import org.lucares.performance.db.PerformanceDb;
+import org.lucares.recommind.logs.Config;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.DisposableBean;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
+import org.springframework.scheduling.annotation.Async;
+import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
 
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.type.TypeReference;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.MappingIterator;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectReader;
 
-public class TcpIngestor implements AutoCloseable {
+@Component
+public class TcpIngestor implements Ingestor, AutoCloseable, DisposableBean {
 	private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(TcpIngestor.class);
 	private static final Logger METRICS_LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger("org.lucares.metrics.tcpIngestor");
 
@@ -158,6 +166,13 @@ public class TcpIngestor implements AutoCloseable {
 		LOGGER.debug("performance db open");
 	}
 
+	@Autowired
+	public TcpIngestor(final PdbRepository pdbRepository) {
+		db = pdbRepository.getDb();
+	}
+
+	@Async
+	@Override
 	public void start() throws Exception {
 
 		final ArrayBlockingQueue<Entry> queue = new ArrayBlockingQueue<>(1);
@@ -182,8 +197,7 @@ public class TcpIngestor implements AutoCloseable {
 
 	private Void listen(final ArrayBlockingQueue<Entry> queue) throws IOException {
 		Thread.currentThread().setName("socket-listener");
-		try (ServerSocket serverSocket = new ServerSocket(
-				PORT/* , 10, InetAddress.getLocalHost() */);) {
+		try (ServerSocket serverSocket = new ServerSocket(PORT);) {
 			LOGGER.info("listening on port " + PORT);
 
 			serverSocket.setSoTimeout((int) TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toMillis(100));
@@ -226,6 +240,12 @@ public class TcpIngestor implements AutoCloseable {
 		return null;
 	}
 
+	@Override
+	@PreDestroy
+	public void destroy() {
+		close();
+	}
+
 	@Override
 	public void close() {
 		LOGGER.debug("stopping accept thread");
@@ -238,7 +258,7 @@ public class TcpIngestor implements AutoCloseable {
 		}
 		LOGGER.debug("closing database");
 		db.close();
-		LOGGER.debug("close done");
+		LOGGER.info("destroyed");
 	}
 
 	public static void main(final String[] args) throws Exception {
diff --git a/pdb-ui/src/main/resources/application-dev.properties b/pdb-ui/src/main/resources/application-dev.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8a64cf7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pdb-ui/src/main/resources/application-dev.properties
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+db.base=/home/andi/ws/performanceDb/db
diff --git a/pdb-ui/src/main/resources/application.properties b/pdb-ui/src/main/resources/application.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..38874b7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pdb-ui/src/main/resources/application.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+db.base=${java.io.tmpdir}/db
+
+path.tmp=${java.io.tmpdir}/pdb/tmp
+path.output=${java.io.tmpdir}/pdb/out
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pdb-ui/src/main/resources/config.system.properties b/pdb-ui/src/main/resources/config.system.properties
deleted file mode 100644
index 34bc0a3..0000000
--- a/pdb-ui/src/main/resources/config.system.properties
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-db.base=/tmp/db
-
-path.tmp=/tmp/pdb/tmp
-path.output=/tmp/pdb/out
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pdb-plotting/src/test/java/org/lucares/performance/db/ingestor/TcpIngestorTest.java b/pdb-ui/src/test/java/org/lucares/performance/db/ingestor/TcpIngestorTest.java
similarity index 99%
rename from pdb-plotting/src/test/java/org/lucares/performance/db/ingestor/TcpIngestorTest.java
rename to pdb-ui/src/test/java/org/lucares/performance/db/ingestor/TcpIngestorTest.java
index f92e7d4..8ce5b16 100644
--- a/pdb-plotting/src/test/java/org/lucares/performance/db/ingestor/TcpIngestorTest.java
+++ b/pdb-ui/src/test/java/org/lucares/performance/db/ingestor/TcpIngestorTest.java
@@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 
 import org.lucares.pdb.api.Entry;
+import org.lucares.pdbui.TcpIngestor;
 import org.lucares.performance.db.FileUtils;
 import org.lucares.performance.db.PerformanceDb;
-import org.lucares.recommind.logs.TcpIngestor;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 import org.testng.Assert;