diff --git a/BasicCache.java b/BasicCache.java
index 57efcaf..ca4047c 100644
--- a/BasicCache.java
+++ b/BasicCache.java
@@ -32,6 +32,12 @@ public BasicCache()
 		this(50);
 	}
 	
+	public void clear()
+	{
+		map.clear();
+		list.clear();
+	}
+	
 	public String get(String key)
 	{
 		// retrieve the value from the map
diff --git a/CacheServer.java b/CacheServer.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..98ff13d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CacheServer.java
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+import java.rmi.RemoteException;
+import java.rmi.server.UnicastRemoteObject;
+
+/**
+ * RMI wrapper for a cache server
+ */
+public class CacheServer extends UnicastRemoteObject implements ICache
+{
+	private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
+	
+	final ICache localCache;
+	
+	public CacheServer(ICache localCache) throws RemoteException
+	{
+		this.localCache = localCache;
+	}
+	
+	public void clear()
+	{
+		localCache.clear();
+	}
+	
+	public String get(String key)
+	{
+		return localCache.get(key);
+	}
+
+	public void set(String key, String val)
+	{
+		localCache.set(key, val);
+	}
+}
diff --git a/HashBalancer.java b/HashBalancer.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..67a3a84
--- /dev/null
+++ b/HashBalancer.java
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+import java.math.BigInteger;
+import java.security.*;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.Random;
+import java.util.Vector;
+
+/**
+ * Manages a set of caching servers and load balances them using key hashing
+ * @author Roan Kattouw
+ */
+public class HashBalancer {
+	protected Vector<String> servers;
+	
+	/**
+	 * Constructor
+	 * @param servers Vector of server names
+	 */
+	public HashBalancer(Vector<String> servers) {
+		this.servers = new Vector<String>(servers);
+	}
+	
+	/**
+	 * Constructor
+	 * @param servers Array of server names
+	 */
+	public HashBalancer(String[] servers) {
+		this.servers = new Vector<String>(Arrays.asList(servers));
+	}
+	
+	/**
+	 * Get a list of all servers managed by this object
+	 * @return Vector of server names
+	 */
+	public Vector<String> getServers() {
+		return servers;
+	}
+	
+	/**
+	 * Get the number of servers managed by this object.
+	 */
+	public int getNumberOfServers() {
+		return servers.size();
+	}
+	
+	/**
+	 * Add a server to be managed by this object
+	 * @param srv Server name
+	 */
+	public void addServer(String srv) {
+		servers.add(srv);
+	}
+	
+	/**
+	 * Remove a server from this object
+	 * @param srv Server name
+	 */
+	public void removeServer(String srv) {
+		servers.remove(srv);
+	}
+	
+	/**
+	 * Find out which server should have a given key. This is the
+	 * hash-based load balancing part
+	 * @param key Cache key
+	 * @return Server name
+	 */
+	public String getServerForKey(String key) {
+		return servers.get(getIndexForKey(key));
+	}
+	
+	protected int getIndexForKey(String key) {
+		try {
+			byte[] byteArr = key.getBytes("UTF-8");
+			MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
+			byte[] hash = md.digest(byteArr);
+			BigInteger h = new BigInteger(1, hash);
+			return h.mod(BigInteger.valueOf(servers.size())).intValue();
+		} catch(Exception e) {
+			// Java throws some stupid exceptions in case UTF-8 or MD5
+			// aren't supported. This is never realistically gonna happen,
+			// but just in case let's use a randomized balancer in that case.
+			Random generator = new Random();
+			return generator.nextInt(servers.size());
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/HashBalancerTest.java b/HashBalancerTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..718f93e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/HashBalancerTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+import junit.framework.TestCase;
+
+
+public class HashBalancerTest extends TestCase {
+
+	public void testGetIndexForKey() {
+		// Use 16 servers, so the server name is equal to
+		// the final hex digit of the MD5 hash of the key
+		String[] servers = {"0", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6",
+				"7", "8", "9", "a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f"
+		};
+		
+		HashBalancer hb = new HashBalancer(servers);
+		assertEquals("8", hb.getServerForKey("foo"));
+		assertEquals("2", hb.getServerForKey("bar"));
+		assertEquals("8", hb.getServerForKey("baz"));
+		assertEquals("e", hb.getServerForKey("Roan"));
+		assertEquals("f", hb.getServerForKey("Jan Paul"));
+		assertEquals("8", hb.getServerForKey("Roy"));
+	}
+
+}
diff --git a/ICache.java b/ICache.java
index 26ff2b3..bd325b2 100644
--- a/ICache.java
+++ b/ICache.java
@@ -14,4 +14,9 @@ public interface ICache
 	 * Store a string in the cache.
 	 */
 	public void set(String key, String val);
+	
+	/**
+	 * Clear the cache.
+	 */
+	public void clear();
 }
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diff --git a/Main.java b/Main.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9398af1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Main.java
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+import java.io.FileInputStream;
+import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
+import java.util.Scanner;
+import java.util.Vector;
+
+public class Main
+{
+	ICache cache;
+	
+	/**
+	 * Init using "java Main configfile.txt serverId cacheSize"
+	 * where configfile.txt is a newline separated list of RMI
+	 * paths, serverId is an integer that denotes the current
+	 * instance (by referring to a line in configfile.txt) and
+	 * cacheSize is the size of the local cache.
+	 * 
+	 * If anything fails, a basic cache is used that doesn't use
+	 * RMI.
+	 */
+	public Main(String[] args)
+	{
+		try {
+			Scanner scanner = new Scanner(new FileInputStream(args[1]));
+			Vector<String> serverNames = new Vector<String>();
+			
+			while (scanner.hasNextLine()) {
+				serverNames.add(scanner.nextLine());
+			}
+			
+			cache = new RemoteCache((String[])serverNames.toArray(), Integer.parseInt(args[2]), new BasicCache(Integer.parseInt(args[3])));
+		} catch (Exception e) {
+			e.printStackTrace();
+			System.out.println("Using basic cache...");
+			cache = new BasicCache();
+		}
+		
+		// TODO: instantiate HTTP server
+	}
+	
+	public static void main(String[] args)
+	{
+		new Main(args);
+	}
+}
diff --git a/RemoteCache.java b/RemoteCache.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e81f1af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/RemoteCache.java
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+import java.net.MalformedURLException;
+import java.rmi.Naming;
+import java.rmi.RemoteException;
+
+public class RemoteCache implements ICache
+{
+	CacheServer cache;
+	HashBalancer hb;
+	
+	public RemoteCache(String[] serverNames, int localId, ICache localCache)
+	{
+		try {
+			cache = new CacheServer(localCache);
+			Naming.rebind(serverNames[localId], cache);
+			hb = new HashBalancer(serverNames);
+		} catch (RemoteException e) {
+			e.printStackTrace();
+		} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
+			e.printStackTrace();
+		}
+	}
+	
+	public void clear()
+	{
+		for (String server : hb.getServers())
+		{
+			try {
+				((ICache)Naming.lookup(server)).clear();
+			} catch (Exception e) {
+				e.printStackTrace();
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	
+	public String get(String key)
+	{
+		return getCacheServer(key).get(key);
+	}
+	
+	public void set(String key, String val)
+	{
+		getCacheServer(key).set(key, val);
+	}
+	
+	private ICache getCacheServer(String key)
+	{
+		try {
+			return (ICache)Naming.lookup(hb.getServerForKey(key));
+		} catch (Exception e) {
+			e.printStackTrace();
+		}
+		
+		return null;
+	}
+}
diff --git a/StubCache.java b/StubCache.java
index fb6ea36..e0e1ff8 100644
--- a/StubCache.java
+++ b/StubCache.java
@@ -5,4 +5,5 @@ public class StubCache implements ICache
 {
 	public String get(String key) { return null; }
 	public void set(String key, String val) {}
+	public void clear() {}
 }
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