diff --git a/src/main/java/de/thm/arsnova/SessionController.java b/src/main/java/de/thm/arsnova/SessionController.java
index d92affcf28e512f190b3dfa9b715aef8c29668e6..513355932cbaff8b68936022f3f012fb8538b484 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/thm/arsnova/SessionController.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/thm/arsnova/SessionController.java
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.PathVariable;
 import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestBody;
 import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
 import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
+import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ResponseBody;
 
 import de.thm.arsnova.entities.Session;
 import de.thm.arsnova.services.ISessionService;
@@ -66,6 +67,7 @@ public class SessionController {
 	}
 	
 	@RequestMapping(value="/session/{sessionkey}", method=RequestMethod.GET)
+	@ResponseBody
 	public Session getSession(@PathVariable String sessionkey, HttpServletResponse response) {
 		Session session = sessionService.getSession(sessionkey);
 		if (session != null) return session;
@@ -75,6 +77,7 @@ public class SessionController {
 	}
 	
 	@RequestMapping(value="/session", method=RequestMethod.POST)
+	@ResponseBody
 	public Session postNewSession(@RequestBody Session session, HttpServletResponse response) {
 		Session newSession = sessionService.saveSession(session);
 		if (session != null) {
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/thm/arsnova/services/SessionService.java b/src/main/java/de/thm/arsnova/services/SessionService.java
index ee141d02a72fc310fd85ca369150ff912c749fee..55a22c3ef5cf006dad2cfb1580befe195cad4286 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/thm/arsnova/services/SessionService.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/thm/arsnova/services/SessionService.java
@@ -74,18 +74,21 @@ public class SessionService implements ISessionService {
 	
 	public static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(SessionService.class);
 
-	@Value("#{props['couchdb.host']}")
+	@Value("${couchdb.host}")
 	public final void setDatabaseHost(String databaseHost) {
+		logger.info(databaseHost);
 		this.databaseHost = databaseHost;
 	}
 	
-	@Value("#{props['couchdb.port']}")
+	@Value("${couchdb.port}")
 	public final void setDatabasePort(String databasePort) {
+		logger.info(databasePort);
 		this.databasePort = Integer.parseInt(databasePort);
 	}
 	
-	@Value("#{props['couchdb.name']}")
+	@Value("${couchdb.name}")
 	public final void setDatabaseName(String databaseName) {
+		logger.info(databaseName);
 		this.databaseName = databaseName;
 	}
 	
diff --git a/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/api-servlet.xml b/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/api-servlet.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 345e7710c3025c033b0669bda35c8a7e8cd16e29..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/api-servlet.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
-	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
-	xmlns:security="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
-	xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
-	xmlns:task="http://www.springframework.org/schema/task"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.1.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-3.1.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.1.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/task http://www.springframework.org/schema/task/spring-task-3.1.xsd">
-
-	<context:component-scan base-package="de.thm.arsnova" />
-	<context:annotation-config />
-
-	<mvc:annotation-driven />
-	<task:annotation-driven />
-
-	<bean
-		class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping" />
-	<bean
-		class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter">
-		<property name="messageConverters">
-			<list>
-				<bean
-					class="org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter" />
-			</list>
-		</property>
-	</bean>
-
-	<bean
-		class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.ContentNegotiatingViewResolver">
-		<property name="mediaTypes">
-			<map>
-				<entry key="json" value="application/json" />
-			</map>
-		</property>
-
-		<property name="defaultViews">
-			<list>
-				<bean
-					class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.json.MappingJacksonJsonView" />
-			</list>
-		</property>
-	</bean>
-
-</beans>
diff --git a/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/arsnova-servlet.xml b/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/arsnova-servlet.xml
index 1c79a718e925e751bcc9b2a483d5f9c162162f24..065ede7792c55e5eda6ce96cd5a496b46dee550f 100644
--- a/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/arsnova-servlet.xml
+++ b/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/arsnova-servlet.xml
@@ -1,26 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
-	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
-	xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
-	xmlns:security="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
-	xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
-	xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.1.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-3.1.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.1.xsd">
-
-	<context:component-scan base-package="de.thm.arsnova" />
-	<context:annotation-config />
-
-	<mvc:resources mapping="/**" location="/" />
-	
-	<mvc:annotation-driven />
-
-	<bean id="viewResolver"
-		class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver"
-		p:viewClass="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView" 
-		p:prefix="/WEB-INF/views/"
-		p:suffix=".jsp" />
+	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd">
 
+	<!-- ARSnova Root Context: defines shared resources visible to all OTHER web components -->
 </beans>
diff --git a/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring/spring-main.xml b/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring/spring-main.xml
index 688a7fd235090578595fe4911afa2e8f7e62541f..8f11efeb740cd5cd0a770ac82213869d6943d29e 100644
--- a/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring/spring-main.xml
+++ b/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring/spring-main.xml
@@ -2,9 +2,12 @@
 <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
 	xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd
+	xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc" xmlns:task="http://www.springframework.org/schema/task"
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.1.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd
 		http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.1.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.1.xsd">
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.1.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/task http://www.springframework.org/schema/task/spring-task-3.1.xsd">
 
 	<bean id="propertyPlaceholderConfigurer"
 		class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer"
@@ -16,14 +19,48 @@
 			</list>
 		</property>
 	</bean>
-
-	<util:properties id="props"
-		location="file:///etc/arsnova/arsnova.properties" />
-
+	
 	<import resource="spring-security.xml" />
 
 	<context:component-scan base-package="de.thm.arsnova" />
-	<context:annotation-config />
+	<mvc:annotation-driven />
+	<mvc:resources mapping="/**" location="/" />
+
+	<task:annotation-driven />
+	
+	<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping" />
+	<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter">
+		<property name="messageConverters">
+			<list>
+				<bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter" />
+			</list>
+		</property>
+	</bean>
+
+	<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.ContentNegotiatingViewResolver">
+		<property name="mediaTypes">
+			<map>
+			 	<entry key="html" value="text/html"/>  
+				<entry key="json" value="application/json" />
+			</map>
+		</property>
+		<property name="viewResolvers">  
+			<list>  
+				<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver">  
+					<property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView"/>  
+					<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/"/>  
+					<property name="suffix" value=".jsp"/>  
+				</bean>  
+		    </list>  
+		</property>  
+		<property name="defaultViews">  
+			<list>  
+				<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.json.MappingJacksonJsonView">  
+					<property name="prefixJson" value="false"/>  
+				</bean>  
+			</list>  
+		</property>  
+	</bean>  
 
 	<bean id="socketServer" class="de.thm.arsnova.socket.ARSnovaSocketIOServer"
 		init-method="startServer" destroy-method="stopServer" scope="singleton"
diff --git a/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring/spring-security.xml b/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring/spring-security.xml
index 40e16c9403d8c9522bd3e985d925e8aef9d61737..bc0a0d1f6e629cbbc656576614030fb60241d57e 100644
--- a/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring/spring-security.xml
+++ b/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring/spring-security.xml
@@ -9,10 +9,6 @@
 		http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.1.xsd
 		http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.1.xsd">
 
-	<context:component-scan base-package="de.thm.arsnova" />
-	<context:annotation-config />
-	
-	
     <security:authentication-manager alias="authenticationManager">
         <security:authentication-provider ref="facebookAuthProvider" />
         <security:authentication-provider ref="twitterAuthProvider" />
diff --git a/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml b/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
index b289f01050151c8304e43791c624c8ca66fcb4ad..cb7155c3f6a2b9bee0e57ce1f858802cb0d86ba3 100644
--- a/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
+++ b/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
@@ -22,15 +22,6 @@
 		<servlet-name>arsnova</servlet-name>
 		<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
 	</servlet-mapping>
-	<servlet>
-		<servlet-name>api</servlet-name>
-		<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
-		<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
-	</servlet>
-	<servlet-mapping>
-		<servlet-name>api</servlet-name>
-		<url-pattern>/api/*</url-pattern>
-	</servlet-mapping>
 	<filter>
 		<filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
 		<filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy</filter-class>