diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index a670f96d3..1113d1ce4 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -29,3 +29,5 @@ parsetab.py
 
 .gradle
 /prog8compiler.jar
+sd*.img
+
diff --git a/.idea/libraries/javax_json_api_1_1_4.xml b/.idea/libraries/javax_json_api_1_1_4.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..967286d8c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.idea/libraries/javax_json_api_1_1_4.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+<component name="libraryTable">
+  <library name="javax.json-api-1.1.4">
+    <CLASSES>
+      <root url="jar://$PROJECT_DIR$/httpCompilerService/lib/javax.json-api-1.1.4.jar!/" />
+      <root url="jar://$PROJECT_DIR$/httpCompilerService/lib/javax.json-1.1.4.jar!/" />
+    </CLASSES>
+    <JAVADOC />
+    <SOURCES />
+  </library>
+</component>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.idea/libraries/slf4j_api_1_7_30.xml b/.idea/libraries/slf4j_api_1_7_30.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..20de6d972
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.idea/libraries/slf4j_api_1_7_30.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+<component name="libraryTable">
+  <library name="slf4j-api-1.7.30">
+    <CLASSES>
+      <root url="jar://$PROJECT_DIR$/httpCompilerService/lib/slf4j-api-1.7.30.jar!/" />
+      <root url="jar://$PROJECT_DIR$/httpCompilerService/lib/slf4j-simple-1.7.30.jar!/" />
+    </CLASSES>
+    <JAVADOC />
+    <SOURCES />
+  </library>
+</component>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.idea/libraries/takes_http.xml b/.idea/libraries/takes_http.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0fdcac0d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.idea/libraries/takes_http.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+<component name="libraryTable">
+  <library name="takes-http">
+    <CLASSES>
+      <root url="jar://$PROJECT_DIR$/httpCompilerService/lib/cactoos-0.42.jar!/" />
+      <root url="jar://$PROJECT_DIR$/httpCompilerService/lib/commons-lang3-3.7.jar!/" />
+      <root url="jar://$PROJECT_DIR$/httpCompilerService/lib/commons-text-1.4.jar!/" />
+      <root url="jar://$PROJECT_DIR$/httpCompilerService/lib/takes-1.19.jar!/" />
+    </CLASSES>
+    <JAVADOC />
+    <SOURCES />
+  </library>
+</component>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.idea/modules.xml b/.idea/modules.xml
index 68aa97a25..fce41442a 100644
--- a/.idea/modules.xml
+++ b/.idea/modules.xml
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
       <module fileurl="file://$PROJECT_DIR$/dbusCompilerService/dbusCompilerService.iml" filepath="$PROJECT_DIR$/dbusCompilerService/dbusCompilerService.iml" />
       <module fileurl="file://$PROJECT_DIR$/docs/docs.iml" filepath="$PROJECT_DIR$/docs/docs.iml" />
       <module fileurl="file://$PROJECT_DIR$/examples/examples.iml" filepath="$PROJECT_DIR$/examples/examples.iml" />
+      <module fileurl="file://$PROJECT_DIR$/httpCompilerService/httpCompilerService.iml" filepath="$PROJECT_DIR$/httpCompilerService/httpCompilerService.iml" />
       <module fileurl="file://$PROJECT_DIR$/parser/parser.iml" filepath="$PROJECT_DIR$/parser/parser.iml" />
     </modules>
   </component>
diff --git a/dbusCompilerService/build.gradle b/dbusCompilerService/build.gradle
index ea9a6b75c..af47e54d5 100644
--- a/dbusCompilerService/build.gradle
+++ b/dbusCompilerService/build.gradle
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ sourceSets {
     }
 }
 
-startScripts.enabled = false
+startScripts.enabled = true
 
 application {
     mainClassName = 'prog8.dbus.TestdbusKt'
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ artifacts {
 
 
 shadowJar {
-    archiveBaseName = 'prog8compilerservice'
+    archiveBaseName = 'prog8compilerservicedbus'
     archiveVersion = '1.0'
     // minimize()
 }
diff --git a/httpCompilerService/build.gradle b/httpCompilerService/build.gradle
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..af641714e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/httpCompilerService/build.gradle
@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+
+plugins {
+    id 'java'
+    id 'application'
+    id "org.jetbrains.kotlin.jvm" version "1.4.21"
+    id 'com.github.johnrengelman.shadow' version '5.2.0'
+}
+
+targetCompatibility = 11
+sourceCompatibility = 11
+
+repositories {
+    mavenLocal()
+    mavenCentral()
+    maven { url "https://kotlin.bintray.com/kotlinx" }
+}
+
+dependencies {
+    implementation project(':compiler')
+    implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk8"
+    // implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-reflect"
+    implementation 'org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-cli:0.3.1'
+    implementation "org.takes:takes:1.19"
+    implementation "javax.json:javax.json-api:1.1.4"
+    implementation "org.glassfish:javax.json:1.1.4"
+    implementation "org.slf4j:slf4j-simple:1.7.30"
+
+    testImplementation "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-test-junit5"
+    testImplementation 'org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-api:5.3.2'
+    testImplementation 'org.hamcrest:hamcrest-junit:2.0.0.0'
+    testRuntimeOnly 'org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-engine:5.3.2'
+}
+
+compileKotlin {
+    kotlinOptions {
+        jvmTarget = "11"
+        // verbose = true
+        // freeCompilerArgs += "-XXLanguage:+NewInference"
+    }
+}
+
+compileTestKotlin {
+    kotlinOptions {
+        jvmTarget = "11"
+    }
+}
+
+sourceSets {
+    main {
+        java {
+            srcDirs = ["${project.projectDir}/src"]
+        }
+        resources {
+            srcDirs = ["${project.projectDir}/res"]
+        }
+    }
+    test {
+        java {
+            srcDirs = ["${project.projectDir}/test"]
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+startScripts.enabled = true
+
+application {
+    mainClassName = 'prog8.http.TestHttpKt'
+    applicationName = 'testhttp'
+}
+
+artifacts {
+    archives shadowJar
+}
+
+
+shadowJar {
+    archiveBaseName = 'prog8compilerservicehttp'
+    archiveVersion = '1.0'
+    // minimize()
+}
+
+
+test {
+    // Enable JUnit 5 (Gradle 4.6+).
+    useJUnitPlatform()
+
+    // Always run tests, even when nothing changed.
+    dependsOn 'cleanTest'
+
+    // Show test results.
+    testLogging {
+        events "skipped", "failed"
+    }
+}
+
+task wrapper(type: Wrapper) {
+    gradleVersion = '6.1.1'
+}
diff --git a/httpCompilerService/httpCompilerService.iml b/httpCompilerService/httpCompilerService.iml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a65181582
--- /dev/null
+++ b/httpCompilerService/httpCompilerService.iml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<module type="JAVA_MODULE" version="4">
+  <component name="NewModuleRootManager" inherit-compiler-output="true">
+    <exclude-output />
+    <content url="file://$MODULE_DIR$">
+      <sourceFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/src" isTestSource="false" />
+    </content>
+    <orderEntry type="jdk" jdkName="11" jdkType="JavaSDK" />
+    <orderEntry type="sourceFolder" forTests="false" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" name="KotlinJavaRuntime" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" name="takes-http" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" name="javax.json-api-1.1.4" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="module" module-name="compiler" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" name="slf4j-api-1.7.30" level="project" />
+  </component>
+</module>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/httpCompilerService/lib/cactoos-0.42.jar b/httpCompilerService/lib/cactoos-0.42.jar
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d06fb37c8
Binary files /dev/null and b/httpCompilerService/lib/cactoos-0.42.jar differ
diff --git a/httpCompilerService/lib/commons-lang3-3.7.jar b/httpCompilerService/lib/commons-lang3-3.7.jar
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f37ded60f
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diff --git a/httpCompilerService/lib/commons-text-1.4.jar b/httpCompilerService/lib/commons-text-1.4.jar
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3e81a797c
Binary files /dev/null and b/httpCompilerService/lib/commons-text-1.4.jar differ
diff --git a/httpCompilerService/lib/javax.json-1.1.4.jar b/httpCompilerService/lib/javax.json-1.1.4.jar
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f6ca0cc43
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diff --git a/httpCompilerService/lib/javax.json-api-1.1.4.jar b/httpCompilerService/lib/javax.json-api-1.1.4.jar
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..367f0ad4e
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diff --git a/httpCompilerService/lib/slf4j-api-1.7.30.jar b/httpCompilerService/lib/slf4j-api-1.7.30.jar
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..29ac26fb8
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diff --git a/httpCompilerService/lib/slf4j-simple-1.7.30.jar b/httpCompilerService/lib/slf4j-simple-1.7.30.jar
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6debaa9de
Binary files /dev/null and b/httpCompilerService/lib/slf4j-simple-1.7.30.jar differ
diff --git a/httpCompilerService/lib/takes-1.19.jar b/httpCompilerService/lib/takes-1.19.jar
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f118aceaf
Binary files /dev/null and b/httpCompilerService/lib/takes-1.19.jar differ
diff --git a/httpCompilerService/src/prog8/http/TestHttp.kt b/httpCompilerService/src/prog8/http/TestHttp.kt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e46e8c946
--- /dev/null
+++ b/httpCompilerService/src/prog8/http/TestHttp.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+package prog8.http
+
+import org.takes.Request
+import org.takes.Response
+import org.takes.Take
+import org.takes.facets.fork.FkMethods
+import org.takes.http.Exit;
+import org.takes.http.FtBasic;
+import org.takes.facets.fork.FkRegex;
+import org.takes.facets.fork.TkFork;
+import org.takes.rq.form.RqFormBase
+import org.takes.rs.RsJson
+import org.takes.tk.TkSlf4j
+import javax.json.Json
+import prog8.compiler.compileProgram
+import java.nio.file.Path
+
+
+class Jsonding: RsJson.Source {
+    override fun toJson(): javax.json.JsonStructure {
+        return Json.createObjectBuilder()
+            .add("name", "irmen")
+            .build()
+    }
+}
+
+class RequestParser : Take {
+    override fun act(request: Request): Response {
+        val form = RqFormBase(request)
+        val names = form.names()
+        val a = form.param("a").single()
+        val compilationResult = compileProgram(Path.of(a), true, true, true, "c64", Path.of("."))
+        return RsJson(Jsonding())
+    }
+}
+
+fun main() {
+    FtBasic(
+        TkSlf4j(
+            TkFork(
+                FkRegex("/", "hello, world!"),
+                FkRegex("/json",
+                    TkFork(
+                        FkMethods("GET", RsJson(Jsonding())),
+                        FkMethods("POST", RequestParser())
+                    )
+                ),
+            )
+        ),
+        8080
+    ).start(Exit.NEVER)
+}
diff --git a/settings.gradle b/settings.gradle
index 98e5ef872..0555e0871 100644
--- a/settings.gradle
+++ b/settings.gradle
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 include ':parser'
 include ':compiler'
 include ':dbusCompilerService'
+include ':httpCompilerService'