diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8ffc029b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+[submodule "web/api/app/Plugin/Crud"]
+	path = web/api/app/Plugin/Crud
+	url = git://github.com/FriendsOfCake/crud.git
+	branch = master
diff --git a/web/api/app/Config/bootstrap.php b/web/api/app/Config/bootstrap.php
index 56b28260f..3a0981dd3 100644
--- a/web/api/app/Config/bootstrap.php
+++ b/web/api/app/Config/bootstrap.php
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ Cache::config('default', array('engine' => 'File'));
  * CakePlugin::load('DebugKit'); //Loads a single plugin named DebugKit
  *
  */
-
+CakePlugin::load('Crud');
 /**
  * You can attach event listeners to the request lifecycle as Dispatcher Filter. By default CakePHP bundles two filters:
  *
diff --git a/web/api/app/Controller/AppController.php b/web/api/app/Controller/AppController.php
index a827969e1..160514054 100644
--- a/web/api/app/Controller/AppController.php
+++ b/web/api/app/Controller/AppController.php
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@
  * @since         CakePHP(tm) v 0.2.9
  * @license       http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php MIT License
  */
-
 App::uses('Controller', 'Controller');
+App::uses('CrudControllerTrait', 'Crud.Lib');
 
 /**
  * Application Controller
@@ -31,4 +31,18 @@ App::uses('Controller', 'Controller');
  * @link		http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/controllers.html#the-app-controller
  */
 class AppController extends Controller {
+	use CrudControllerTrait;
+
+	public $components = [
+		'RequestHandler',
+		'Crud.Crud' => [
+			'actions' => [
+				'index' => 'Crud.Index',
+				'add'   => 'Crud.Add',
+				'edit'  => 'Crud.Edit',
+				'view'  => 'Crud.View'
+			],
+			'listeners' => ['Api', 'ApiTransformation']
+		]
+	];
 }
diff --git a/web/api/app/Plugin/Crud b/web/api/app/Plugin/Crud
new file mode 160000
index 000000000..6faf8df67
--- /dev/null
+++ b/web/api/app/Plugin/Crud
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 6faf8df67fb788351e00e9401670558cad3dab05