diff --git a/Modules/Segmentation/Controllers/mitkToolManagerProvider.h b/Modules/Segmentation/Controllers/mitkToolManagerProvider.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..19ccaed4a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Modules/Segmentation/Controllers/mitkToolManagerProvider.h
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+/*===================================================================
+
+The Medical Imaging Interaction Toolkit (MITK)
+
+Copyright (c) German Cancer Research Center,
+Division of Medical and Biological Informatics.
+All rights reserved.
+
+This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without
+even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR
+A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
+
+See LICENSE.txt or http://www.mitk.org for details.
+
+===================================================================*/
+
+#ifndef MITK_TOOLMANAGERPROVIDER_H
+#define MITK_TOOLMANAGERPROVIDER_H
+
+#include <usServiceInterface.h>
+
+namespace mitk {
+
+
+  /**
+  * \ingroup MicroServices_Interfaces
+  *
+  */
+  struct ToolManagerProvider
+  {
+    virtual ~ToolManagerProvider() {}
+
+    virtual bool Dummy() = 0;
+
+  };
+
+}
+
+
+  US_DECLARE_SERVICE_INTERFACE(mitk::ToolManagerProvider, "org.mitk.services.ToolManagerProvider")
+
+#endif
diff --git a/Modules/Segmentation/Controllers/mitkToolManagerProviderImpl.cpp b/Modules/Segmentation/Controllers/mitkToolManagerProviderImpl.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..25b033b64d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Modules/Segmentation/Controllers/mitkToolManagerProviderImpl.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+/*===================================================================
+
+The Medical Imaging Interaction Toolkit (MITK)
+
+Copyright (c) German Cancer Research Center,
+Division of Medical and Biological Informatics.
+All rights reserved.
+
+This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without
+even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR
+A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
+
+See LICENSE.txt or http://www.mitk.org for details.
+
+===================================================================*/
+
+#include "mitkToolManagerProviderImpl.h"
+
+mitk::ToolManagerProviderImpl::ToolManagerProviderImpl()
+{
+}
+mitk::ToolManagerProviderImpl::~ToolManagerProviderImpl()
+{
+}
+
+bool mitk::ToolManagerProviderImpl::Dummy()
+{
+  return true;
+}
diff --git a/Modules/Segmentation/Controllers/mitkToolManagerProviderImpl.h b/Modules/Segmentation/Controllers/mitkToolManagerProviderImpl.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8b06338a28
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Modules/Segmentation/Controllers/mitkToolManagerProviderImpl.h
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+/*===================================================================
+
+The Medical Imaging Interaction Toolkit (MITK)
+
+Copyright (c) German Cancer Research Center,
+Division of Medical and Biological Informatics.
+All rights reserved.
+
+This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without
+even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR
+A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
+
+See LICENSE.txt or http://www.mitk.org for details.
+
+===================================================================*/
+
+#ifndef MITK_TOOLMANAGERPROVIDER_IMPL_H
+#define MITK_TOOLMANAGERPROVIDER_IMPL_H
+
+#include <usModuleContext.h>
+
+#include "mitkContourManager.h"
+
+#include <itkObjectFactory.h>
+#include <mitkCommon.h>
+
+namespace mitk
+{
+
+  class ToolManagerProviderImpl : public itk::LightObject, public ToolManagerProvider
+  {
+  public:
+    mitkClassMacro(ToolManagerProviderImpl, itk::LightObject);
+    itkNewMacro(Self);
+
+    virtual bool Dummy();
+    //friend class mitk::SegmentationModuleActivator;
+
+  protected:
+    //mitkClassMacro(ToolManagerProviderImpl, itk::LightObject);
+    //itkNewMacro(Self);
+
+    ToolManagerProviderImpl();
+    virtual ~ToolManagerProviderImpl();
+  };
+}
+
+#endif
diff --git a/Modules/Segmentation/Testing/files.cmake b/Modules/Segmentation/Testing/files.cmake
index 87ece6530e..7bbba33b35 100644
--- a/Modules/Segmentation/Testing/files.cmake
+++ b/Modules/Segmentation/Testing/files.cmake
@@ -1,38 +1,39 @@
 set(MODULE_TESTS
   mitkContourMapper2DTest.cpp
   mitkContourTest.cpp
   mitkDataNodeSegmentationTest.cpp
 #  mitkSegmentationInterpolationTest.cpp
   mitkOverwriteSliceFilterTest.cpp
 #  mitkOverwriteSliceFilterObliquePlaneTest.cpp
   mitkContourModelTest.cpp
   mitkContourModelIOTest.cpp
 #  mitkToolManagerTest.cpp
+  mitkToolManagerProviderTest.cpp
 )
 
 set(MODULE_IMAGE_TESTS
   mitkManualSegmentationToSurfaceFilterTest.cpp #only runs on images
   mitkOverwriteSliceImageFilterTest.cpp #only runs on images
 )
 set(MODULE_CUSTOM_TESTS
 )
 
 set(MODULE_TESTIMAGES
   US4DCyl.nrrd
   Pic3D.nrrd
   Pic2DplusT.nrrd
   BallBinary30x30x30.nrrd
   Png2D-bw.png
 )
 
 # Create an artificial module initializing class for
 # usServices
 set(testdriver_resources )
 usFunctionGenerateModuleInit(testdriver_init_file
                              NAME ${MODULE_NAME}TestDriver
                              DEPENDS "Segmentation"
                              VERSION "0.1.0"
                              EXECUTABLE
                             )
 
 set(TEST_CPP_FILES ${testdriver_init_file})
diff --git a/Modules/Segmentation/Testing/mitkToolManagerProviderTest.cpp b/Modules/Segmentation/Testing/mitkToolManagerProviderTest.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e6b2a18418
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Modules/Segmentation/Testing/mitkToolManagerProviderTest.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+/*===================================================================
+
+The Medical Imaging Interaction Toolkit (MITK)
+
+Copyright (c) German Cancer Research Center,
+Division of Medical and Biological Informatics.
+All rights reserved.
+
+This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without
+even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR
+A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
+
+See LICENSE.txt or http://www.mitk.org for details.
+
+===================================================================*/
+#include "mitkTestingMacros.h"
+#include "mitkToolManagerProvider.h"
+#include "itkLightObject.h"
+
+#include <usGetModuleContext.h>
+#include "mitkModuleContext.h"
+#include "mitkServiceReference.h"
+
+class mitkToolManagerProviderTestClass {
+public:
+
+
+};
+
+int mitkToolManagerProviderTest(int, char* [])
+{
+  MITK_TEST_BEGIN("ToolManagerProvider")
+
+
+  mitk::ServiceReference serviceRef = mitk::GetModuleContext()->GetServiceReference< mitk::ToolManagerProvider >();
+  mitk::ToolManagerProvider* service = mitk::GetModuleContext()->GetService< mitk::ToolManagerProvider >(serviceRef);
+
+  MITK_TEST_CONDITION(service!=NULL,"Service was succesfully  called");
+  MITK_TEST_CONDITION(service->Dummy(), "Dummy call");
+  MITK_TEST_END()
+}
diff --git a/Modules/Segmentation/files.cmake b/Modules/Segmentation/files.cmake
index 63e019f428..081debd03e 100644
--- a/Modules/Segmentation/files.cmake
+++ b/Modules/Segmentation/files.cmake
@@ -1,111 +1,112 @@
 set(CPP_FILES
   Algorithms/mitkCalculateSegmentationVolume.cpp
   Algorithms/mitkContourModelSource.cpp
   Algorithms/mitkContourModelSubDivisionFilter.cpp
   Algorithms/mitkContourModelToPointSetFilter.cpp
   Algorithms/mitkContourModelToSurfaceFilter.cpp
   Algorithms/mitkContourSetToPointSetFilter.cpp
   Algorithms/mitkContourUtils.cpp
   Algorithms/mitkCorrectorAlgorithm.cpp
   Algorithms/mitkDiffImageApplier.cpp
   Algorithms/mitkDiffSliceOperation.cpp
   Algorithms/mitkDiffSliceOperationApplier.cpp
   Algorithms/mitkImageLiveWireContourModelFilter.cpp
   Algorithms/mitkImageToContourFilter.cpp
   Algorithms/mitkImageToContourModelFilter.cpp
   Algorithms/mitkImageToLiveWireContourFilter.cpp
   Algorithms/mitkManualSegmentationToSurfaceFilter.cpp
   Algorithms/mitkOtsuSegmentationFilter.cpp
   Algorithms/mitkOverwriteDirectedPlaneImageFilter.cpp
   Algorithms/mitkOverwriteSliceImageFilter.cpp
   Algorithms/mitkSegmentationObjectFactory.cpp
   Algorithms/mitkSegmentationSink.cpp
   Algorithms/mitkShapeBasedInterpolationAlgorithm.cpp
   Algorithms/mitkShowSegmentationAsSmoothedSurface.cpp
   Algorithms/mitkShowSegmentationAsSurface.cpp
   Algorithms/mitkVtkImageOverwrite.cpp
   Controllers/mitkSegmentationInterpolationController.cpp
   Controllers/mitkToolManager.cpp
   Controllers/mitkSegmentationModuleActivator.cpp
+  Controllers/mitkToolManagerProviderImpl.cpp
   DataManagement/mitkContour.cpp
   DataManagement/mitkContourElement.cpp
   DataManagement/mitkContourModel.cpp
   DataManagement/mitkContourSet.cpp
   DataManagement/mitkExtrudedContour.cpp
   Interactions/mitkAdaptiveRegionGrowingTool.cpp
   Interactions/mitkAddContourTool.cpp
   Interactions/mitkAutoCropTool.cpp
   Interactions/mitkAutoSegmentationTool.cpp
   Interactions/mitkBinaryThresholdTool.cpp
   Interactions/mitkBinaryThresholdULTool.cpp
   Interactions/mitkCalculateGrayValueStatisticsTool.cpp
   Interactions/mitkCalculateVolumetryTool.cpp
   Interactions/mitkContourInteractor.cpp
   Interactions/mitkContourModelInteractor.cpp
   Interactions/mitkContourModelLiveWireInteractor.cpp
   Interactions/mitkContourTool.cpp
   Interactions/mitkCorrectorTool2D.cpp
   Interactions/mitkCreateSurfaceTool.cpp
   Interactions/mitkDrawPaintbrushTool.cpp
   Interactions/mitkErasePaintbrushTool.cpp
   Interactions/mitkEraseRegionTool.cpp
   Interactions/mitkExtrudedContourInteractor.cpp
   Interactions/mitkFastMarchingTool.cpp
   Interactions/mitkFastMarchingTool3D.cpp
   Interactions/mitkFeedbackContourTool.cpp
   Interactions/mitkFillRegionTool.cpp
   Interactions/mitkLiveWireTool2D.cpp
   Interactions/mitkOtsuTool3D.cpp
   Interactions/mitkPaintbrushTool.cpp
   Interactions/mitkPixelManipulationTool.cpp
   Interactions/mitkRegionGrow3DTool.cpp
   Interactions/mitkRegionGrowingTool.cpp
   Interactions/mitkSegmentationsProcessingTool.cpp
   Interactions/mitkSetRegionTool.cpp
   Interactions/mitkSegTool2D.cpp
   Interactions/mitkSubtractContourTool.cpp
   Interactions/mitkTool.cpp
   Interactions/mitkToolCommand.cpp
   Interactions/mitkWatershedTool.cpp
   IO/mitkContourModelIOFactory.cpp
   IO/mitkContourModelReader.cpp
   IO/mitkContourModelWriter.cpp
   IO/mitkContourModelWriterFactory.cpp
   Rendering/mitkContourMapper2D.cpp
   Rendering/mitkContourModelGLMapper2D.cpp
   Rendering/mitkContourModelMapper2D.cpp
   Rendering/mitkContourModelMapper3D.cpp
   Rendering/mitkContourSetMapper2D.cpp
   Rendering/mitkContourSetVtkMapper3D.cpp
   Rendering/mitkContourVtkMapper3D.cpp
   SegmentationUtilities/BooleanOperations/mitkBooleanOperation.cpp
   SegmentationUtilities/MorphologicalOperations/mitkMorphologicalOperations.cpp
 )
 
 set(RESOURCE_FILES
   Add_48x48.png
   Add_Cursor_32x32.png
   Correction_48x48.png
   Correction_Cursor_32x32.png
   Erase_48x48.png
   Erase_Cursor_32x32.png
   FastMarching_48x48.png
   FastMarching_Cursor_32x32.png
   Fill_48x48.png
   Fill_Cursor_32x32.png
   LiveWire_48x48.png
   LiveWire_Cursor_32x32.png
   Otsu_48x48.png
   Paint_48x48.png
   Paint_Cursor_32x32.png
   RegionGrowing_48x48.png
   RegionGrowing_Cursor_32x32.png
   Subtract_48x48.png
   Subtract_Cursor_32x32.png
   Threshold_48x48.png
   TwoThresholds_48x48.png
   Watershed_48x48.png
   Watershed_Cursor_32x32.png
   Wipe_48x48.png
   Wipe_Cursor_32x32.png
 )