Contacted a web coding expert:
Ted Neward | Principal Consultant, ThoughtWorks
Java, .NET, XML Services
Consulting, Teaching, Speaking, Writing
http://www.thoughtworks.com | http://www.tedneward.com

Hoping to gather his interest or that he can point me in the right direction to find additional coding help. He posted a straightforward status fetcher and he said we’re free to mangle it as needed but he wants to see where I take it (the interface portion). I assume whatever framework I start with will not be the final version of a real web server so it’s ok to share my cobbled together I/O with Ted. That ok by you

Any ideas on open source code with a license (based on that sun page)?

http://www.victusspiritus.com/p2/?p=62

Vlad, any thoughts Jason?