diff --git a/confluent.py b/confluent.py
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-# Copyright 2013 IBM Corporation
-# All rights reserved
-
-# This is the main application.
-# It should check for existing UDP socket to negotiate socket listen takeover
-# It will have three paths into it:
-#   -Unix domain socket
-#   -TLS socket
-#   -WSGI
-# Additionally, it will be able to receive particular UDP packets to facilitate
-# Things like heartbeating and discovery
-# It also will optionally snoop SLP DA requests
diff --git a/confluent/main.py b/confluent/main.py
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+# Copyright 2013 IBM Corporation
+# All rights reserved
+
+# This is the main application.
+# It should check for existing UDP socket to negotiate socket listen takeover
+# It will have three paths into it:
+#   -Unix domain socket
+#   -TLS socket
+#   -WSGI
+# Additionally, it will be able to receive particular UDP packets to facilitate
+# Things like heartbeating and discovery
+# It also will optionally snoop SLP DA requests
+
+import eventlet
+from eventlet.green import socket
+from eventlet import wsgi
+import multiprocessing
+import sys
+import os
+
+def _load_plugins():
+    # To know our plugins directory, we get the parent path of 'bin'
+    path=os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
+    plugindir = os.path.realpath(os.path.join(path,'..','plugins'))
+    sys.path.append(plugindir)
+    plugins = set()
+    #two passes, to avoid adding both py and pyc files
+    for plugin in os.listdir(plugindir):
+        plugin = os.path.splitext(plugin)[0]
+        plugins.add(plugin)
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":