diff --git a/vipra-cmd/.classpath b/vipra-cmd/.classpath
index 40970bd0b82a9de07acfa8546c944293fd7552dd..88e7a6ba323a197c37c8f597ce644f3256af68f9 100644
--- a/vipra-cmd/.classpath
+++ b/vipra-cmd/.classpath
@@ -11,17 +11,6 @@
 			<attribute name="maven.pomderived" value="true"/>
 		</attributes>
 	</classpathentry>
-	<classpathentry kind="src" output="target/test-classes" path="src/test/java">
-		<attributes>
-			<attribute name="optional" value="true"/>
-			<attribute name="maven.pomderived" value="true"/>
-		</attributes>
-	</classpathentry>
-	<classpathentry excluding="**" kind="src" output="target/test-classes" path="src/test/resources">
-		<attributes>
-			<attribute name="maven.pomderived" value="true"/>
-		</attributes>
-	</classpathentry>
 	<classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.m2e.MAVEN2_CLASSPATH_CONTAINER">
 		<attributes>
 			<attribute name="maven.pomderived" value="true"/>
diff --git a/vipra-cmd/.settings/org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs b/vipra-cmd/.settings/org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs
index 29abf999564110a0d6aca109f55f439c72b7031c..abdea9ac032d4655898933f93050f48bf9581d14 100644
--- a/vipra-cmd/.settings/org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs
+++ b/vipra-cmd/.settings/org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 eclipse.preferences.version=1
 encoding//src/main/java=UTF-8
 encoding//src/main/resources=UTF-8
-encoding//src/test/java=UTF-8
-encoding//src/test/resources=UTF-8
 encoding/<project>=UTF-8
diff --git a/vipra-cmd/build.xml b/vipra-cmd/build.xml
index 9b61c8d796cb4213c1c93de6e25bfdc04e865000..7e15723ddb97d2c786aefcec39599035a1a03768 100644
--- a/vipra-cmd/build.xml
+++ b/vipra-cmd/build.xml
@@ -14,13 +14,15 @@
             </manifest>
             <fileset dir="${dir.buildfile}/target/classes"/>
             <fileset dir="/home/eike/Repositories/fu/ss15/ma/impl/vipra-util/target/classes"/>
+        	<fileset dir="/home/eike/Repositories/fu/ss15/ma/impl/jgibblda/target/classes"/>
+            <zipfileset excludes="META-INF/*.SF" src="/home/eike/.m2/repository/commons-io/commons-io/2.4/commons-io-2.4.jar"/>
             <zipfileset excludes="META-INF/*.SF" src="/home/eike/.m2/repository/org/apache/logging/log4j/log4j-api/2.4.1/log4j-api-2.4.1.jar"/>
             <zipfileset excludes="META-INF/*.SF" src="/home/eike/.m2/repository/org/apache/logging/log4j/log4j-core/2.4.1/log4j-core-2.4.1.jar"/>
             <zipfileset excludes="META-INF/*.SF" src="/home/eike/.m2/repository/org/apache/logging/log4j/log4j-slf4j-impl/2.4.1/log4j-slf4j-impl-2.4.1.jar"/>
             <zipfileset excludes="META-INF/*.SF" src="/home/eike/.m2/repository/org/slf4j/slf4j-api/1.7.12/slf4j-api-1.7.12.jar"/>
-            <zipfileset excludes="META-INF/*.SF" src="/home/eike/.m2/repository/org/mongodb/mongodb-driver/3.0.4/mongodb-driver-3.0.4.jar"/>
-            <zipfileset excludes="META-INF/*.SF" src="/home/eike/.m2/repository/org/mongodb/bson/3.0.4/bson-3.0.4.jar"/>
-            <zipfileset excludes="META-INF/*.SF" src="/home/eike/.m2/repository/org/mongodb/mongodb-driver-core/3.0.4/mongodb-driver-core-3.0.4.jar"/>
+            <zipfileset excludes="META-INF/*.SF" src="/home/eike/.m2/repository/org/mongodb/mongodb-driver/3.2.0/mongodb-driver-3.2.0.jar"/>
+            <zipfileset excludes="META-INF/*.SF" src="/home/eike/.m2/repository/org/mongodb/bson/3.2.0/bson-3.2.0.jar"/>
+            <zipfileset excludes="META-INF/*.SF" src="/home/eike/.m2/repository/org/mongodb/mongodb-driver-core/3.2.0/mongodb-driver-core-3.2.0.jar"/>
             <zipfileset excludes="META-INF/*.SF" src="/home/eike/.m2/repository/org/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/2.1.0/elasticsearch-2.1.0.jar"/>
             <zipfileset excludes="META-INF/*.SF" src="/home/eike/.m2/repository/org/apache/lucene/lucene-core/5.3.1/lucene-core-5.3.1.jar"/>
             <zipfileset excludes="META-INF/*.SF" src="/home/eike/.m2/repository/org/apache/lucene/lucene-backward-codecs/5.3.1/lucene-backward-codecs-5.3.1.jar"/>
@@ -52,8 +54,19 @@
             <zipfileset excludes="META-INF/*.SF" src="/home/eike/.m2/repository/org/hdrhistogram/HdrHistogram/2.1.6/HdrHistogram-2.1.6.jar"/>
             <zipfileset excludes="META-INF/*.SF" src="/home/eike/.m2/repository/commons-cli/commons-cli/1.3.1/commons-cli-1.3.1.jar"/>
             <zipfileset excludes="META-INF/*.SF" src="/home/eike/.m2/repository/com/twitter/jsr166e/1.1.0/jsr166e-1.1.0.jar"/>
-            <zipfileset excludes="META-INF/*.SF" src="/home/eike/.m2/repository/commons-io/commons-io/2.4/commons-io-2.4.jar"/>
+            <zipfileset excludes="META-INF/*.SF" src="/home/eike/.m2/repository/args4j/args4j/2.0.6/args4j-2.0.6.jar"/>
             <zipfileset excludes="META-INF/*.SF" src="/home/eike/.m2/repository/com/googlecode/json-simple/json-simple/1.1.1/json-simple-1.1.1.jar"/>
+            <zipfileset excludes="META-INF/*.SF" src="/home/eike/.m2/repository/edu/stanford/nlp/stanford-corenlp/3.5.2/stanford-corenlp-3.5.2.jar"/>
+            <zipfileset excludes="META-INF/*.SF" src="/home/eike/.m2/repository/com/io7m/xom/xom/1.2.10/xom-1.2.10.jar"/>
+            <zipfileset excludes="META-INF/*.SF" src="/home/eike/.m2/repository/xml-apis/xml-apis/1.3.03/xml-apis-1.3.03.jar"/>
+            <zipfileset excludes="META-INF/*.SF" src="/home/eike/.m2/repository/xerces/xercesImpl/2.8.0/xercesImpl-2.8.0.jar"/>
+            <zipfileset excludes="META-INF/*.SF" src="/home/eike/.m2/repository/xalan/xalan/2.7.0/xalan-2.7.0.jar"/>
+            <zipfileset excludes="META-INF/*.SF" src="/home/eike/.m2/repository/de/jollyday/jollyday/0.4.7/jollyday-0.4.7.jar"/>
+            <zipfileset excludes="META-INF/*.SF" src="/home/eike/.m2/repository/javax/xml/bind/jaxb-api/2.2.7/jaxb-api-2.2.7.jar"/>
+            <zipfileset excludes="META-INF/*.SF" src="/home/eike/.m2/repository/com/googlecode/efficient-java-matrix-library/ejml/0.23/ejml-0.23.jar"/>
+            <zipfileset excludes="META-INF/*.SF" src="/home/eike/.m2/repository/javax/json/javax.json-api/1.0/javax.json-api-1.0.jar"/>
+            <zipfileset excludes="META-INF/*.SF" src="/home/eike/.m2/repository/org/apache/lucene/lucene-core/5.4.0/lucene-core-5.4.0.jar"/>
+            <zipfileset excludes="META-INF/*.SF" src="/home/eike/.m2/repository/org/apache/lucene/lucene-analyzers-common/5.4.0/lucene-analyzers-common-5.4.0.jar"/>
             <zipfileset excludes="META-INF/*.SF" src="/home/eike/.m2/repository/junit/junit/4.12/junit-4.12.jar"/>
             <zipfileset excludes="META-INF/*.SF" src="/home/eike/.m2/repository/org/hamcrest/hamcrest-core/1.3/hamcrest-core-1.3.jar"/>
         </jar>
diff --git a/vipra-cmd/src/main/java/de/vipra/cmd/CmdOptions.java b/vipra-cmd/src/main/java/de/vipra/cmd/CmdOptions.java
index f7619cd020eba22fc17e06dcb716e58910b6cb19..07fd04444b308971ea71e336f4b54cabb30bfe82 100644
--- a/vipra-cmd/src/main/java/de/vipra/cmd/CmdOptions.java
+++ b/vipra-cmd/src/main/java/de/vipra/cmd/CmdOptions.java
@@ -11,13 +11,19 @@ public class CmdOptions extends Options {
 
 	public static final String OPT_HELP = "h";
 	public static final String OPT_HELP_LONG = "help";
+
 	public static final String OPT_IMPORT = "i";
 	public static final String OPT_IMPORT_LONG = "import";
+
 	public static final String OPT_SHELL = "x";
 	public static final String OPT_SHELL_LONG = "shell";
+
 	public static final String OPT_DELETE = "d";
 	public static final String OPT_DELETE_LONG = "delete";
 
+	public static final String OPT_CLEAR = "c";
+	public static final String OPT_CLEAR_LONG = "clear";
+
 	public CmdOptions() {
 		addOption(Option.builder(OPT_HELP).longOpt(OPT_HELP_LONG).desc("print this message").build());
 		addOption(Option.builder(OPT_SHELL).longOpt(OPT_SHELL_LONG).hasArg(true).argName("name")
@@ -28,6 +34,7 @@ public class CmdOptions extends Options {
 				.desc("import articles into the database").build());
 		group.addOption(Option.builder(OPT_DELETE).longOpt(OPT_DELETE_LONG).hasArgs().argName("files/ids...")
 				.desc("delete articles from the database").build());
+		group.addOption(Option.builder(OPT_CLEAR).longOpt(OPT_CLEAR_LONG).desc("clear database and filebase").build());
 
 		addOptionGroup(group);
 	}
diff --git a/vipra-cmd/src/main/java/de/vipra/cmd/Main.java b/vipra-cmd/src/main/java/de/vipra/cmd/Main.java
index 46197f2bbf427e671873fbdd7be25add4614b470..5ffef5a07a556656af599f07d04450616cbbc66e 100644
--- a/vipra-cmd/src/main/java/de/vipra/cmd/Main.java
+++ b/vipra-cmd/src/main/java/de/vipra/cmd/Main.java
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import org.apache.commons.cli.ParseException;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
+import de.vipra.cmd.option.ClearCommand;
 import de.vipra.cmd.option.Command;
 import de.vipra.cmd.option.DeleteCommand;
 import de.vipra.cmd.option.ImportCommand;
@@ -49,6 +50,8 @@ public class Main {
 				c = new ImportCommand(cline.getOptionValues(OPT_IMPORT));
 			} else if (cline.hasOption(OPT_DELETE)) {
 				c = new DeleteCommand(cline.getOptionValues(OPT_DELETE));
+			} else if (cline.hasOption(OPT_CLEAR)) {
+				c = new ClearCommand();
 			}
 
 			if (c != null) {
diff --git a/vipra-cmd/src/main/java/de/vipra/cmd/ex/ClearException.java b/vipra-cmd/src/main/java/de/vipra/cmd/ex/ClearException.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9c28a8c2f29a2a40c2d3dd4daea33be60022a91b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vipra-cmd/src/main/java/de/vipra/cmd/ex/ClearException.java
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+package de.vipra.cmd.ex;
+
+public class ClearException extends Exception {
+
+	private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
+
+	public ClearException(String msg) {
+		super(msg);
+	}
+
+	public ClearException(Exception e) {
+		super(e);
+	}
+
+}
diff --git a/vipra-cmd/src/main/java/de/vipra/cmd/option/ClearCommand.java b/vipra-cmd/src/main/java/de/vipra/cmd/option/ClearCommand.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..00f49a7752c0c7e6af97ac8dc37335f21d2c081a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vipra-cmd/src/main/java/de/vipra/cmd/option/ClearCommand.java
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+package de.vipra.cmd.option;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+import de.vipra.cmd.ExecutionException;
+import de.vipra.cmd.ex.ClearException;
+import de.vipra.cmd.model.Article;
+import de.vipra.util.Config;
+import de.vipra.util.ConsoleUtils;
+import de.vipra.util.Constants;
+import de.vipra.util.ex.ConfigException;
+import de.vipra.util.service.DatabaseService;
+
+public class ClearCommand implements Command {
+
+	public static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ClearCommand.class);
+	public static final Logger out = LoggerFactory.getLogger("shellout");
+
+	private Config config;
+	private DatabaseService<Article> dbArticles;
+
+	private void clear() throws ClearException, ConfigException {
+		try {
+			config = Config.getConfig();
+			dbArticles = DatabaseService.getDatabaseService(config, Constants.Collection.ARTICLES, Article.class);
+		} catch (Exception e) {
+			throw new ClearException(e);
+		}
+
+		out.info("clearing database");
+		dbArticles.drop();
+
+		out.info("clearing filebase");
+		File dataDir = config.getDataDirectory();
+		if (dataDir.exists() && dataDir.isDirectory()) {
+			try {
+				FileUtils.deleteDirectory(dataDir);
+			} catch (IOException e) {
+				out.warn("could not delete data directory: " + dataDir.getAbsolutePath());
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public void run() throws ExecutionException {
+		out.info("to confirm clearing, type 'clear' and press enter");
+		try {
+			System.out.print("> ");
+			String in = ConsoleUtils.readLine().toLowerCase().trim();
+			if (in.equals("clear")) {
+				clear();
+			}
+		} catch (IOException e) {
+			log.error("io error: " + e.getMessage());
+		} catch (ClearException | ConfigException e) {
+			throw new ExecutionException(e);
+		}
+	}
+
+}
diff --git a/vipra-cmd/src/main/java/de/vipra/cmd/option/ImportCommand.java b/vipra-cmd/src/main/java/de/vipra/cmd/option/ImportCommand.java
index 34869e1b4fa2684b49dab0f01aacd80748707239..b23864acc06a3a0f05651659159deb6a70c1e3d6 100644
--- a/vipra-cmd/src/main/java/de/vipra/cmd/option/ImportCommand.java
+++ b/vipra-cmd/src/main/java/de/vipra/cmd/option/ImportCommand.java
@@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ public class ImportCommand implements Command {
 			timer.start();
 
 			// import files into database and filebase
+			out.info("file import");
 			List<Article> articles = new ArrayList<>();
 			for (File file : files) {
 				articles.addAll(importFile(file));
@@ -161,10 +162,12 @@ public class ImportCommand implements Command {
 			long durImport = timer.lap();
 
 			// write filebase
+			out.info("writing file index");
 			filebase.close();
 			long durIndex = timer.lap();
 
 			// do topic modeling
+			out.info("topic modeling");
 			analyzer.analyze();
 			long durAnalyze = timer.lap();
 
diff --git a/vipra-cmd/src/main/resources/log4j2.xml b/vipra-cmd/src/main/resources/log4j2.xml
index c28b8da1deb9d9c4c53d81fdb830230a3a86fe8b..1da679bac62e41de1aec19c1e28be2c768858d9e 100644
--- a/vipra-cmd/src/main/resources/log4j2.xml
+++ b/vipra-cmd/src/main/resources/log4j2.xml
@@ -9,6 +9,6 @@
 		<Root level="ERROR">
 			<AppenderRef ref="Console" />
 		</Root>
-		<Logger name="shellout" level="ALL"/>
+		<Logger name="shellout" level="ALL" />
 	</Loggers>
 </Configuration>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/vipra-util/.classpath b/vipra-util/.classpath
index 13c35ff075287036386ea459ee87b13c4e6be365..f0cbe96b457b57ffa31e74d3c0f87d16bb366423 100644
--- a/vipra-util/.classpath
+++ b/vipra-util/.classpath
@@ -6,11 +6,6 @@
 			<attribute name="maven.pomderived" value="true"/>
 		</attributes>
 	</classpathentry>
-	<classpathentry excluding="**" kind="src" output="target/classes" path="src/main/resources">
-		<attributes>
-			<attribute name="maven.pomderived" value="true"/>
-		</attributes>
-	</classpathentry>
 	<classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.m2e.MAVEN2_CLASSPATH_CONTAINER">
 		<attributes>
 			<attribute name="maven.pomderived" value="true"/>
@@ -22,11 +17,5 @@
 			<attribute name="maven.pomderived" value="true"/>
 		</attributes>
 	</classpathentry>
-	<classpathentry kind="src" output="target/test-classes" path="src/test/java">
-		<attributes>
-			<attribute name="optional" value="true"/>
-			<attribute name="maven.pomderived" value="true"/>
-		</attributes>
-	</classpathentry>
 	<classpathentry kind="output" path="target/classes"/>
 </classpath>
diff --git a/vipra-util/.settings/org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs b/vipra-util/.settings/org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs
index abdea9ac032d4655898933f93050f48bf9581d14..e9441bb123ec3e1ab029c7eac896bc45681d9a71 100644
--- a/vipra-util/.settings/org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs
+++ b/vipra-util/.settings/org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 eclipse.preferences.version=1
 encoding//src/main/java=UTF-8
-encoding//src/main/resources=UTF-8
 encoding/<project>=UTF-8
diff --git a/vipra-util/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component b/vipra-util/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component
index 217de769b1c939ce8569041d55e0227a3473b779..98cb9759f376998c345804d1b8ac743309b0b3ae 100644
--- a/vipra-util/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component
+++ b/vipra-util/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><project-modules id="moduleCoreId" project-version="1.5.0">
     <wb-module deploy-name="vipra-util">
         <wb-resource deploy-path="/" source-path="/src/main/java"/>
-        <wb-resource deploy-path="/" source-path="/src/main/resources"/>
     </wb-module>
 </project-modules>
diff --git a/vipra-util/src/main/java/de/vipra/util/Config.java b/vipra-util/src/main/java/de/vipra/util/Config.java
index d4abb9fbff65a3fd8a76562820572fa8ffaecd7f..70892015d160d666c80fd39cc717950bcf67b07e 100644
--- a/vipra-util/src/main/java/de/vipra/util/Config.java
+++ b/vipra-util/src/main/java/de/vipra/util/Config.java
@@ -36,7 +36,32 @@ public class Config {
 	private final Properties props = new Properties();
 
 	private Config() throws IOException, ConfigException {
-		load(FileUtils.getResource(Constants.CONFIG_FILE));
+		InputStream in = null;
+
+		// load config from environment
+		String configPath = System.getenv("VIPRA_CONFIG");
+		if (configPath != null && configPath.length() > 0) {
+			File file = new File(configPath);
+			if (file.exists() && file.isFile()) {
+				in = FileUtils.openInputStream(file);
+			}
+		}
+
+		// load config from generic config dir
+		File configDir = getGenericConfigDir();
+		if (configDir != null && configDir.exists() && configDir.isDirectory()) {
+			File file = new File(configDir, "config.properties");
+			if (file.exists() && file.isFile()) {
+				in = FileUtils.openInputStream(file);
+			}
+		}
+
+		// load config from source
+		if (in == null) {
+			in = FileUtils.getResource(Constants.CONFIG_FILE);
+		}
+
+		load(in);
 	}
 
 	private void load(InputStream is) throws ConfigException, IOException {
@@ -83,6 +108,11 @@ public class Config {
 		return new File(base, Constants.FB_DIR);
 	}
 
+	public static File getGenericConfigDir() {
+		File base = PathUtils.appConfigDir();
+		return new File(base, Constants.FB_DIR);
+	}
+
 	public static Config getConfig() throws IOException, ConfigException {
 		if (config == null) {
 			config = new Config();
diff --git a/vipra-util/src/main/java/de/vipra/util/ConsoleUtils.java b/vipra-util/src/main/java/de/vipra/util/ConsoleUtils.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..af55646b0eb3710f0323cf559edcc39f41538e5f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vipra-util/src/main/java/de/vipra/util/ConsoleUtils.java
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+package de.vipra.util;
+
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+
+public class ConsoleUtils {
+
+	public static String readLine() throws IOException {
+		BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
+		return in.readLine();
+	}
+
+}
diff --git a/vipra-util/src/main/java/de/vipra/util/FileUtils.java b/vipra-util/src/main/java/de/vipra/util/FileUtils.java
index 935541e22e9b512e5706ec89d67452449470b4cb..d9b6bbd2403d0b50079d77145c98c7774f224636 100644
--- a/vipra-util/src/main/java/de/vipra/util/FileUtils.java
+++ b/vipra-util/src/main/java/de/vipra/util/FileUtils.java
@@ -11,16 +11,28 @@ import java.util.List;
 
 public class FileUtils extends org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils {
 
+	public static final boolean isJAR;
+
+	static {
+		String classResource = FileUtils.class.getResource("FileUtils.class").toString();
+		isJAR = classResource.startsWith("jar:");
+	}
+
 	public static List<String> readFile(File file) throws IOException {
 		return Files.readAllLines(Paths.get(file.getAbsolutePath()), Constants.FB_ENCODING);
 	}
 
 	public static InputStream getResource(String name) {
+		while (name.startsWith("/"))
+			name = name.substring(1);
 		InputStream is = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(name);
 		if (is == null) {
 			is = Config.class.getResourceAsStream(name);
 		}
-		return is;
+		if (isJAR && !name.startsWith("resources") && getResource("resources/") != null)
+			return getResource("resources/" + name);
+		else
+			return is;
 	}
 
 	public static int countLines(File file) throws IOException {
diff --git a/vipra-util/src/main/java/de/vipra/util/PathUtils.java b/vipra-util/src/main/java/de/vipra/util/PathUtils.java
index dd8a00b63a5f6e035308fada36dcda7e6aa52e6b..7e5524fcfbdf300be8d1f74e4f67dd4908e3bdfa 100644
--- a/vipra-util/src/main/java/de/vipra/util/PathUtils.java
+++ b/vipra-util/src/main/java/de/vipra/util/PathUtils.java
@@ -18,4 +18,18 @@ public class PathUtils {
 		return base;
 	}
 
+	public static File appConfigDir() {
+		String os = System.getProperty("os.name").toUpperCase();
+		File base = null;
+		if (os.contains("WIN")) {
+			base = new File(System.getProperty("APPDATA"));
+		} else if (os.contains("MAC")) {
+			base = new File(System.getProperty("user.home") + File.separator + "Library" + File.separator
+					+ "ApplicationSupport");
+		} else {
+			base = new File(System.getProperty("user.home") + File.separator + ".config");
+		}
+		return base;
+	}
+
 }
diff --git a/vipra-util/src/main/java/de/vipra/util/service/DatabaseService.java b/vipra-util/src/main/java/de/vipra/util/service/DatabaseService.java
index c930da6cac33b6ff9243301ca0844c6aa20e0731..a49f30d37713e2ef0eb298054ebe3f50c8d667b8 100644
--- a/vipra-util/src/main/java/de/vipra/util/service/DatabaseService.java
+++ b/vipra-util/src/main/java/de/vipra/util/service/DatabaseService.java
@@ -101,6 +101,10 @@ public class DatabaseService<T extends Model> implements Service<T, DatabaseExce
 		t.fromDocument(docNew);
 		return result.getModifiedCount();
 	}
+	
+	public void drop() {
+		collection.drop();
+	}
 
 	public static <T extends Model> DatabaseService<T> getDatabaseService(Config config,
 			Constants.Collection collection, Class<T> clazz) throws ConfigException {
diff --git a/vipra-util/src/main/java/de/vipra/util/service/Service.java b/vipra-util/src/main/java/de/vipra/util/service/Service.java
index 824a6a97de4b86e335b9c8b7255d7a8de5fbcfe5..a55b1aea721109f0f3dd141a266df08954a6f10e 100644
--- a/vipra-util/src/main/java/de/vipra/util/service/Service.java
+++ b/vipra-util/src/main/java/de/vipra/util/service/Service.java
@@ -12,4 +12,6 @@ public interface Service<T extends Model, E extends Exception> {
 
 	long updateSingle(T t) throws E;
 
+	void drop();
+
 }
diff --git a/vipra-util/src/main/resources/config.properties b/vipra-util/src/main/resources/config.properties
deleted file mode 100644
index 06623e215e66a3dfaefbdf3baabce5e5aeb14412..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/vipra-util/src/main/resources/config.properties
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-db.host=localhost
-db.port=27017
-db.name=test
-
-fb.path=${datadir}/vipra
\ No newline at end of file