diff --git a/navalplanner-business/src/main/java/org/navalplanner/business/IDataBootstrap.java b/navalplanner-business/src/main/java/org/navalplanner/business/IDataBootstrap.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..75e76c320
--- /dev/null
+++ b/navalplanner-business/src/main/java/org/navalplanner/business/IDataBootstrap.java
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+package org.navalplanner.business;
+
+public interface IDataBootstrap {
+
+    void loadRequiredData();
+
+}
diff --git a/navalplanner-business/src/main/java/org/navalplanner/business/resources/bootstrap/CriterionsBootstrap.java b/navalplanner-business/src/main/java/org/navalplanner/business/resources/bootstrap/CriterionsBootstrap.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d042cc8c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/navalplanner-business/src/main/java/org/navalplanner/business/resources/bootstrap/CriterionsBootstrap.java
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+package org.navalplanner.business.resources.bootstrap;
+
+import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
+import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
+import org.navalplanner.business.IDataBootstrap;
+import org.navalplanner.business.resources.services.ResourceService;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Scope;
+import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
+
+@Component
+@Scope("singleton")
+public class CriterionsBootstrap implements IDataBootstrap {
+
+    private static final Log LOG = LogFactory.getLog(CriterionsBootstrap.class);
+
+    @Autowired
+    private ResourceService resourceService;
+
+    @Override
+    public void loadRequiredData() {
+        LOG.info("TODO: load criterions");
+        assert resourceService != null;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/navalplanner-business/src/main/resources/navalplanner-business-spring-config.xml b/navalplanner-business/src/main/resources/navalplanner-business-spring-config.xml
index 49e28f4bd..6ffb33648 100644
--- a/navalplanner-business/src/main/resources/navalplanner-business-spring-config.xml
+++ b/navalplanner-business/src/main/resources/navalplanner-business-spring-config.xml
@@ -39,14 +39,15 @@
     <tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager" />
 
     <!--
-        For enabling annotation-based configuration (in particular,
-        required for "@Autowired")
+        For enabling annotation-based configuration (in particular, required
+        for "@Autowired")
     -->
     <context:annotation-config />
 
+    <context:component-scan base-package="org.navalplanner.business"/>
+
     <!--
-        ======================== Business Objects
-        ========================
+        ======================== Business Objects ========================
     -->
 
     <!--  Resource DAOs and registry -->
diff --git a/navalplanner-webapp/src/main/java/org/navalplanner/web/bootstrap/BootstrapListener.java b/navalplanner-webapp/src/main/java/org/navalplanner/web/bootstrap/BootstrapListener.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..71393b595
--- /dev/null
+++ b/navalplanner-webapp/src/main/java/org/navalplanner/web/bootstrap/BootstrapListener.java
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+package org.navalplanner.web.bootstrap;
+
+import javax.servlet.ServletContextEvent;
+import javax.servlet.ServletContextListener;
+
+import org.navalplanner.business.IDataBootstrap;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactoryUtils;
+import org.springframework.web.context.WebApplicationContext;
+import org.springframework.web.context.support.WebApplicationContextUtils;
+
+public class BootstrapListener implements ServletContextListener {
+
+    @Override
+    public void contextDestroyed(ServletContextEvent servletContextEvent) {
+
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent servletContextEvent) {
+        WebApplicationContext webApplicationContext = WebApplicationContextUtils
+                .getWebApplicationContext(servletContextEvent
+                        .getServletContext());
+        String[] beanNames = BeanFactoryUtils
+                .beanNamesForTypeIncludingAncestors(webApplicationContext,
+                        IDataBootstrap.class);
+        for (String name : beanNames) {
+            IDataBootstrap bootstrap = (IDataBootstrap) webApplicationContext
+                    .getBean(name);
+            bootstrap.loadRequiredData();
+        }
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/navalplanner-webapp/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml b/navalplanner-webapp/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
index 2a474e272..bf3a678d6 100644
--- a/navalplanner-webapp/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
+++ b/navalplanner-webapp/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@
     <listener>
         <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
     </listener>
-
     <listener>
         <listener-class>
             org.springframework.web.context.request.RequestContextListener</listener-class>
@@ -52,6 +51,11 @@
 
     <!-- end Spring listeners -->
 
+    <!-- Loads all IDataBootstrap and executes them -->
+    <listener>
+        <listener-class>org.navalplanner.web.bootstrap.BootstrapListener</listener-class>
+    </listener>
+
     <servlet>
         <description>ZK loader for ZUML pages</description>
         <servlet-name>zkLoader</servlet-name>
@@ -85,12 +89,8 @@
     </servlet-mapping>
     <!-- //// -->
 
-
-
     <welcome-file-list>
-
         <welcome-file>/planner/main.zul</welcome-file>
-
     </welcome-file-list>
 
     <error-page>
@@ -99,9 +99,7 @@
     </error-page>
 
     <error-page>
-            <error-code>404</error-code>
-                <location>/common/page_not_found.zul</location>
+        <error-code>404</error-code>
+        <location>/common/page_not_found.zul</location>
     </error-page>
-
-
 </web-app>