diff --git a/java/google/registry/module/BUILD b/java/google/registry/module/BUILD
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..84346bf7f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/java/google/registry/module/BUILD
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+package(
+    default_visibility = ["//java/google/registry:registry_project"],
+)
+
+licenses(["notice"])  # Apache 2.0
+
+java_library(
+    name = "module",
+    srcs = glob(["*.java"]),
+    deps = [
+        "//java/google/registry/request",
+        "//java/google/registry/util",
+        "@com_google_appengine_api_1_0_sdk",
+        "@com_google_dagger",
+        "@com_google_flogger",
+        "@com_google_flogger_system_backend",
+        "@com_google_monitoring_client_metrics",
+        "@javax_inject",
+        "@javax_servlet_api",
+        "@joda_time",
+        "@org_bouncycastle_bcpkix_jdk15on",
+    ],
+)
diff --git a/java/google/registry/module/ServletBase.java b/java/google/registry/module/ServletBase.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..99b2a0dcc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/java/google/registry/module/ServletBase.java
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+// Copyright 2018 The Nomulus Authors. All Rights Reserved.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+package google.registry.module;
+
+import com.google.appengine.api.LifecycleManager;
+import com.google.common.flogger.FluentLogger;
+import com.google.monitoring.metrics.MetricReporter;
+import dagger.Lazy;
+import google.registry.request.RequestHandler;
+import google.registry.util.SystemClock;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.security.Security;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException;
+import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
+import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
+import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
+import org.bouncycastle.jce.provider.BouncyCastleProvider;
+import org.joda.time.DateTime;
+
+/** Base for Servlets that handle all requests to our App Engine modules. */
+public class ServletBase extends HttpServlet {
+
+  private final RequestHandler<?> requestHandler;
+  private final Lazy<MetricReporter> metricReporter;
+  private static final FluentLogger logger = FluentLogger.forEnclosingClass();
+  private static final SystemClock clock = new SystemClock();
+
+  public ServletBase(RequestHandler<?> requestHandler, Lazy<MetricReporter> metricReporter) {
+    this.requestHandler = requestHandler;
+    this.metricReporter = metricReporter;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void init() {
+    Security.addProvider(new BouncyCastleProvider());
+
+    // If metric reporter failed to instantiate for any reason (bad keyring, bad json credential,
+    // etc), we log the error but keep the main thread running. Also the shutdown hook will only be
+    // registered if metric reporter starts up correctly.
+    try {
+      metricReporter.get().startAsync().awaitRunning(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
+      logger.atInfo().log("Started up MetricReporter");
+      LifecycleManager.getInstance()
+          .setShutdownHook(
+              () -> {
+                try {
+                  metricReporter.get().stopAsync().awaitTerminated(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
+                  logger.atInfo().log("Shut down MetricReporter");
+                } catch (TimeoutException e) {
+                  logger.atSevere().withCause(e).log("Failed to stop MetricReporter.");
+                }
+              });
+    } catch (Exception e) {
+      logger.atSevere().withCause(e).log("Failed to initialize MetricReporter.");
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void service(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse rsp) throws IOException {
+    logger.atInfo().log("Received %s request", getClass().getSimpleName());
+    DateTime startTime = clock.nowUtc();
+    try {
+      requestHandler.handleRequest(req, rsp);
+    } finally {
+      logger.atInfo().log(
+          "Finished %s request. Latency: %.3fs",
+          getClass().getSimpleName(), (clock.nowUtc().getMillis() - startTime.getMillis()) / 1000d);
+    }
+  }
+}