diff --git a/compiler/rmi/kotlinr/src/KotlinCompilerClient.kt b/compiler/rmi/kotlinr/src/KotlinCompilerClient.kt
index ab5324dda2b..7808fbdf82d 100644
--- a/compiler/rmi/kotlinr/src/KotlinCompilerClient.kt
+++ b/compiler/rmi/kotlinr/src/KotlinCompilerClient.kt
@@ -157,19 +157,33 @@ public class KotlinCompilerClient {
             return connectToService(compilerId, daemonOptions, errStream)
         }
 
-        public fun shutdownCompileService(): Unit {
-            KotlinCompilerClient.connectToCompileService(CompilerId(), DaemonLaunchingOptions(), DaemonOptions(), System.out, autostart = false, checkId = false)
+        public fun shutdownCompileService(daemonOptions: DaemonOptions): Unit {
+            KotlinCompilerClient.connectToCompileService(CompilerId(), DaemonLaunchingOptions(), daemonOptions, System.out, autostart = false, checkId = false)
                     ?.shutdown()
         }
 
-        public fun incrementalCompile(compiler: CompileService, args: Array<String>, caches: Map<String, IncrementalCache>, out: OutputStream): Int {
+        public fun shutdownCompileService(): Unit {
+            shutdownCompileService(DaemonOptions())
+        }
+
+        public fun compile(compiler: CompileService, args: Array<out String>, out: OutputStream): Int {
+
+            val outStrm = RemoteOutputStreamServer(out)
+            try {
+                return compiler.remoteCompile(args, outStrm, CompileService.OutputFormat.PLAIN)
+            }
+            finally {
+                outStrm.disconnect()
+            }
+        }
+
+        public fun incrementalCompile(compiler: CompileService, args: Array<out String>, caches: Map<String, IncrementalCache>, out: OutputStream): Int {
 
             val outStrm = RemoteOutputStreamServer(out)
             val cacheServers = hashMapOf<String, RemoteIncrementalCacheServer>()
             try {
                 caches.forEach { cacheServers.put( it.getKey(), RemoteIncrementalCacheServer( it.getValue())) }
-                val res = compiler.remoteIncrementalCompile(args, cacheServers, outStrm, CompileService.OutputFormat.XML)
-                return res
+                return compiler.remoteIncrementalCompile(args, cacheServers, outStrm, CompileService.OutputFormat.XML)
             }
             finally {
                 cacheServers.forEach { it.getValue().disconnect() }
diff --git a/compiler/rmi/rmi-interface/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/rmi/CompileService.kt b/compiler/rmi/rmi-interface/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/rmi/CompileService.kt
index 890c4eae466..5d5cd9c7530 100644
--- a/compiler/rmi/rmi-interface/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/rmi/CompileService.kt
+++ b/compiler/rmi/rmi-interface/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/rmi/CompileService.kt
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ public interface CompileService : Remote {
 
     throws(RemoteException::class)
     public fun remoteIncrementalCompile(
-            args: Array<String>,
+            args: Array<out String>,
             caches: Map<String, RemoteIncrementalCache>,
             outputStream: RemoteOutputStream,
             outputFormat: OutputFormat): Int
diff --git a/compiler/rmi/rmi-server/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/rmi/service/CompileServiceImpl.kt b/compiler/rmi/rmi-server/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/rmi/service/CompileServiceImpl.kt
index f5bb4fede4c..2719bc17e7b 100644
--- a/compiler/rmi/rmi-server/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/rmi/service/CompileServiceImpl.kt
+++ b/compiler/rmi/rmi-server/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/rmi/service/CompileServiceImpl.kt
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ class CompileServiceImpl<Compiler: CLICompiler<*>>(
             val res = body()
             val endTime = System.nanoTime()
             val endMem = usedMemory() / 1024
-            log.info("Done")
+            log.info("Done with result " + res.toString())
             log.info("Elapsed time: " + TimeUnit.NANOSECONDS.toMillis(endTime - startTime) + " ms")
             log.info("Used memory: $endMem kb (${"%+d".format(endMem - startMem)} kb)")
             return res
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ class CompileServiceImpl<Compiler: CLICompiler<*>>(
             }
         }
 
-    override fun remoteIncrementalCompile(args: Array<String>, caches: Map<String, CompileService.RemoteIncrementalCache>, errStream: RemoteOutputStream, outputFormat: CompileService.OutputFormat): Int =
+    override fun remoteIncrementalCompile(args: Array<out String>, caches: Map<String, CompileService.RemoteIncrementalCache>, errStream: RemoteOutputStream, outputFormat: CompileService.OutputFormat): Int =
         ifAlive {
             checkedCompile(args) {
                 val strm = RemoteOutputStreamClient(errStream)
diff --git a/compiler/tests/compiler-tests.iml b/compiler/tests/compiler-tests.iml
index fb072c4387d..5448f557960 100644
--- a/compiler/tests/compiler-tests.iml
+++ b/compiler/tests/compiler-tests.iml
@@ -26,5 +26,7 @@
     <orderEntry type="module" module-name="js.serializer" />
     <orderEntry type="module" module-name="js.translator" scope="TEST" />
     <orderEntry type="module" module-name="util" />
+    <orderEntry type="module" module-name="kotlinr" />
+    <orderEntry type="module" module-name="rmi-interface" />
   </component>
 </module>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/compiler/tests/org/jetbrains/kotlin/daemon/CompilerDaemonTest.kt b/compiler/tests/org/jetbrains/kotlin/daemon/CompilerDaemonTest.kt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..dd5842f9e5e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/compiler/tests/org/jetbrains/kotlin/daemon/CompilerDaemonTest.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2010-2015 JetBrains s.r.o.
+ *
+ * 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 org.jetbrains.kotlin.daemon
+
+import junit.framework.TestCase
+import org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.CliBaseTest
+import org.jetbrains.kotlin.integration.KotlinIntegrationTestBase
+import org.jetbrains.kotlin.rmi.CompilerId
+import org.jetbrains.kotlin.rmi.DaemonLaunchingOptions
+import org.jetbrains.kotlin.rmi.DaemonOptions
+import org.jetbrains.kotlin.rmi.kotlinr.KotlinCompilerClient
+import org.jetbrains.kotlin.test.JetTestUtils
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream
+import java.io.File
+
+val KOTLIN_DAEMON_TEST_PORT = 19753
+
+public class CompilerDaemonTest : KotlinIntegrationTestBase() {
+
+    data class CompilerResults(val resultCode: Int, val out: String)
+
+    val daemonOptions = DaemonOptions(port = KOTLIN_DAEMON_TEST_PORT)
+    val daemonLaunchingOptions = DaemonLaunchingOptions()
+    val compilerId by lazy { CompilerId.makeCompilerId( File(KotlinIntegrationTestBase.getCompilerLib(), "kotlin-compiler.jar"),
+                                                        File("dependencies/bootstrap-compiler/Kotlin/kotlinc/lib/kotlin-runtime.jar"),
+                                                        File("dependencies/bootstrap-compiler/Kotlin/kotlinc/lib/kotlin-reflect.jar")) }
+
+    private fun compileOnDaemon(args: Array<out String>): CompilerResults {
+        val daemon = KotlinCompilerClient.connectToCompileService(compilerId, daemonLaunchingOptions, daemonOptions, System.err, autostart = true, checkId = true)
+        TestCase.assertNotNull("failed to connect daemon", daemon)
+        val strm = ByteArrayOutputStream()
+        val code = KotlinCompilerClient.compile(daemon!!, args, strm)
+        return CompilerResults(code, strm.toString())
+    }
+
+    private fun runDaemonCompilerTwice(logName: String, vararg arguments: String): Unit {
+        KotlinCompilerClient.shutdownCompileService(daemonOptions)
+
+        try {
+            val res1 = compileOnDaemon(arguments)
+            TestCase.assertEquals("first compilation failed:\n${res1.out}", 0, res1.resultCode)
+            val res2 = compileOnDaemon(arguments)
+            TestCase.assertEquals("second compilation failed:\n${res2.out}", 0, res2.resultCode)
+            TestCase.assertEquals("build results differ", CliBaseTest.removePerfOutput(res1.out), CliBaseTest.removePerfOutput(res2.out))
+            // TODO: add performance comparison assert
+        }
+        finally {
+            KotlinCompilerClient.shutdownCompileService(daemonOptions)
+        }
+    }
+
+    private fun getTestBaseDir(): String = JetTestUtils.getTestDataPathBase() + "/integration/smoke/" + getTestName(true)
+
+    private fun run(logName: String, vararg args: String): Int = runJava(getTestBaseDir(), logName, *args)
+
+    public fun testHelloApp() {
+        val jar = tmpdir.absolutePath + File.separator + "hello.jar"
+
+        runDaemonCompilerTwice("hello.compile", "-include-runtime", File(getTestBaseDir(), "hello.kt").absolutePath, "-d", jar)
+        run("hello.run", "-cp", jar, "Hello.HelloPackage")
+    }
+}
diff --git a/compiler/tests/org/jetbrains/kotlin/integration/KotlinIntegrationTestBase.java b/compiler/tests/org/jetbrains/kotlin/integration/KotlinIntegrationTestBase.java
index 4766c779fa4..2b81e49fc34 100644
--- a/compiler/tests/org/jetbrains/kotlin/integration/KotlinIntegrationTestBase.java
+++ b/compiler/tests/org/jetbrains/kotlin/integration/KotlinIntegrationTestBase.java
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ public abstract class KotlinIntegrationTestBase extends TestCaseWithTmpdir {
         return runtime;
     }
 
-    protected static File getCompilerLib() {
+    public static File getCompilerLib() {
         File file = PathUtil.getKotlinPathsForDistDirectory().getLibPath().getAbsoluteFile();
         assertTrue("Lib directory doesn't exist. Run 'ant dist'", file.isDirectory());
         return file;