diff --git a/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/handlers.py b/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/handlers.py
index 1692ee9..b6ad68b 100644
--- a/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/handlers.py
+++ b/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/handlers.py
@@ -6,20 +6,10 @@ import urllib
 import uuid
 from Queue import Queue
 
-import zmq
-
-# Install the pyzmq ioloop. This has to be done before anything else from
-# tornado is imported.
-from zmq.eventloop import ioloop
-import tornado.ioloop
-tornado.ioloop = ioloop
-
-from tornado import httpserver
 from tornado import options
 from tornado import web
 from tornado import websocket
 
-from kernelmanager import KernelManager
 
 options.define("port", default=8888, help="run on the given port", type=int)
 
@@ -171,105 +161,6 @@ class NotebookHandler(web.RequestHandler):
         self.finish()
 
 
-class NotebookApplication(web.Application):
-
-    def __init__(self):
-        handlers = [
-            (r"/", MainHandler),
-            (r"/kernels", KernelHandler),
-            (r"/kernels/%s/%s" % (_kernel_id_regex, _kernel_action_regex), KernelActionHandler),
-            (r"/kernels/%s/iopub" % _kernel_id_regex, ZMQStreamHandler, dict(stream_name='iopub')),
-            (r"/kernels/%s/shell" % _kernel_id_regex, ZMQStreamHandler, dict(stream_name='shell')),
-            (r"/notebooks", NotebookRootHandler),
-            (r"/notebooks/([^/]+)", NotebookHandler)
-        ]
-        settings = dict(
-            template_path=os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "templates"),
-            static_path=os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "static"),
-        )
-        web.Application.__init__(self, handlers, **settings)
-
-        self.context = zmq.Context()
-        self.kernel_manager = KernelManager(self.context)
-        self._session_dict = {}
-        self._routers = {}
-
-    #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
-    # Methods for managing kernels and sessions
-    #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-    @property
-    def kernel_ids(self):
-        return self.kernel_manager.kernel_ids
-
-    def start_kernel(self):
-        kernel_id = self.kernel_manager.start_kernel()
-        logging.info("Kernel started: %s" % kernel_id)
-        self.start_session(kernel_id)
-        return kernel_id
-
-    def interrupt_kernel(self, kernel_id):
-        self.kernel_manager.interrupt_kernel(kernel_id)
-        logging.info("Kernel interrupted: %s" % kernel_id)
-
-    def restart_kernel(self, kernel_id):
-        # Create the new kernel first so we can move the clients over.
-        new_kernel_id = self.start_kernel()
-
-        # Copy the clients over to the new routers.
-        old_iopub_router = self.get_router(kernel_id, 'iopub')
-        old_shell_router = self.get_router(kernel_id, 'shell')
-        new_iopub_router = self.get_router(new_kernel_id, 'iopub')
-        new_shell_router = self.get_router(new_kernel_id, 'shell')
-        new_iopub_router.copy_clients(old_iopub_router)
-        new_shell_router.copy_clients(old_shell_router)
-
-        # Now shutdown the old session and the kernel.
-        # TODO: This causes a hard crash in ZMQStream.close, which sets
-        # self.socket to None to hastily. We will need to fix this in PyZMQ
-        # itself. For now, we just leave the old kernel running :(
-        # sm = self.kernel_manager.get_session_manager(kernel_id)
-        # session_id = self._session_dict[kernel_id]
-        # sm.stop_session(session_id)
-        # self.kernel_manager.kill_kernel(kernel_id)
-
-        logging.info("Kernel restarted")
-        return new_kernel_id
-
-    def start_session(self, kernel_id):
-        sm = self.kernel_manager.get_session_manager(kernel_id)
-        session_id = sm.start_session()
-        self._session_dict[kernel_id] = session_id
-        iopub_stream = sm.get_iopub_stream(session_id)
-        shell_stream = sm.get_shell_stream(session_id)
-        iopub_router = IOPubStreamRouter(iopub_stream)
-        shell_router = ShellStreamRouter(shell_stream)
-        self._routers[(kernel_id, session_id, 'iopub')] = iopub_router
-        self._routers[(kernel_id, session_id, 'shell')] = shell_router
-        logging.info("Session started: %s, %s" % (kernel_id, session_id))
-
-    def stop_session(self, kernel_id):
-        # TODO: finish this!
-        sm = self.kernel_manager.get_session_manager(kernel_id)
-        session_id = self._session_dict[kernel_id]
-
-    def get_router(self, kernel_id, stream_name):
-        session_id = self._session_dict[kernel_id]
-        router = self._routers[(kernel_id, session_id, stream_name)]
-        return router
-
-
-def main():
-    options.parse_command_line()
-    application = NotebookApplication()
-    http_server = httpserver.HTTPServer(application)
-    http_server.listen(options.options.port)
-    print "IPython Notebook running at: http://127.0.0.1:8888"
-    print "The github master of tornado is required to run this server:"
-    print "    https://github.com/facebook/tornado/tree/master/tornado"
-    ioloop.IOLoop.instance().start()
-
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    main()
+
+
 
diff --git a/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/notebookapp.py b/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/notebookapp.py
index 1692ee9..ca7a6a2 100644
--- a/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/notebookapp.py
+++ b/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/notebookapp.py
@@ -1,10 +1,5 @@
-import datetime
-import json
 import logging
 import os
-import urllib
-import uuid
-from Queue import Queue
 
 import zmq
 
@@ -17,158 +12,19 @@ tornado.ioloop = ioloop
 from tornado import httpserver
 from tornado import options
 from tornado import web
-from tornado import websocket
 
 from kernelmanager import KernelManager
+from handlers import (
+    MainHandler, KernelHandler, KernelActionHandler, ZMQStreamHandler,
+    NotebookRootHandler, NotebookHandler
+)
+from routers import IOPubStreamRouter, ShellStreamRouter
 
 options.define("port", default=8888, help="run on the given port", type=int)
 
 _kernel_id_regex = r"(?P<kernel_id>\w+-\w+-\w+-\w+-\w+)"
 _kernel_action_regex = r"(?P<action>restart|interrupt)"
 
-class MainHandler(web.RequestHandler):
-    def get(self):
-        self.render('notebook.html')
-
-
-class KernelHandler(web.RequestHandler):
-
-    def get(self):
-        self.write(json.dumps(self.application.kernel_ids))
-
-    def post(self):
-        kernel_id = self.application.start_kernel()
-        self.write(json.dumps(kernel_id))
-
-
-class KernelActionHandler(web.RequestHandler):
-
-    def post(self, kernel_id, action):
-        # TODO: figure out a better way of handling RPC style calls.
-        if action == 'interrupt':
-            self.application.interrupt_kernel(kernel_id)
-        if action == 'restart':
-            new_kernel_id = self.application.restart_kernel(kernel_id)
-            self.write(json.dumps(new_kernel_id))
-
-
-class ZMQStreamRouter(object):
-
-    def __init__(self, zmq_stream):
-        self.zmq_stream = zmq_stream
-        self._clients = {}
-        self.zmq_stream.on_recv(self._on_zmq_reply)
-
-    def register_client(self, client):
-        client_id = uuid.uuid4()
-        self._clients[client_id] = client
-        return client_id
-
-    def unregister_client(self, client_id):
-        del self._clients[client_id]
-
-    def copy_clients(self, router):
-        # Copy the clients of another router.
-        for client_id, client in router._clients.items():
-            client.router = self
-            self._clients[client_id] = client
-
-
-class IOPubStreamRouter(ZMQStreamRouter):
-
-    def _on_zmq_reply(self, msg_list):
-        for client_id, client in self._clients.items():
-            for msg in msg_list:
-                client.write_message(msg)
-
-    def forward_unicode(self, client_id, msg):
-        # This is a SUB stream that we should never write to.
-        pass
-
-
-class ShellStreamRouter(ZMQStreamRouter):
-
-    def __init__(self, zmq_stream):
-        ZMQStreamRouter.__init__(self, zmq_stream)
-        self._request_queue = Queue()
-
-    def _on_zmq_reply(self, msg_list):
-        client_id = self._request_queue.get(block=False)
-        client = self._clients.get(client_id)
-        if client is not None:
-            for msg in msg_list:
-                client.write_message(msg)
-
-    def forward_unicode(self, client_id, msg):
-        self._request_queue.put(client_id)
-        self.zmq_stream.send_unicode(msg)
-
-
-class ZMQStreamHandler(websocket.WebSocketHandler):
-
-    def initialize(self, stream_name):
-        self.stream_name = stream_name
-
-    def open(self, kernel_id):
-        self.router = self.application.get_router(kernel_id, self.stream_name)
-        self.client_id = self.router.register_client(self)
-        logging.info("Connection open: %s, %s" % (kernel_id, self.client_id))
-
-    def on_message(self, msg):
-        self.router.forward_unicode(self.client_id, msg)
-
-    def on_close(self):
-        self.router.unregister_client(self.client_id)
-        logging.info("Connection closed: %s" % self.client_id)
-
-
-class NotebookRootHandler(web.RequestHandler):
-
-    def get(self):
-        files = os.listdir(os.getcwd())
-        files = [file for file in files if file.endswith(".ipynb")]
-        self.write(json.dumps(files))
-
-
-class NotebookHandler(web.RequestHandler):
-
-    SUPPORTED_METHODS = ("GET", "DELETE", "PUT")
-
-    def find_path(self, filename):
-        filename = urllib.unquote(filename)
-        if not filename.endswith('.ipynb'):
-            raise web.HTTPError(400)
-        path = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), filename)
-        return path
-
-    def get(self, filename):
-        path = self.find_path(filename)
-        if not os.path.isfile(path):
-            raise web.HTTPError(404)
-        info = os.stat(path)
-        self.set_header("Content-Type", "application/unknown")
-        self.set_header("Last-Modified", datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(
-            info.st_mtime))
-        f = open(path, "r")
-        try:
-            self.finish(f.read())
-        finally:
-            f.close()
-
-    def put(self, filename):
-        path = self.find_path(filename)
-        f = open(path, "w")
-        f.write(self.request.body)
-        f.close()
-        self.finish()
-
-    def delete(self, filename):
-        path = self.find_path(filename)
-        if not os.path.isfile(path):
-            raise web.HTTPError(404)
-        os.unlink(path)
-        self.set_status(204)
-        self.finish()
 
 
 class NotebookApplication(web.Application):