Right now there is no easy way to programmatically submit a faunus job from a java application and poll the job tracker for status. This would be handy for a UI to display the job progress. I can think of two solutions:

• Expose a public getJobs method on FaunusCompiler. This is pretty simple, but it then starts to feel like we're mashing a lot of responsibilities in the compiler.
• I think a better approach would be to add a FaunusJobControl in the same vein of Hadoop's JobControl. It could control running each step of the faunus job and provide a nice place to expose job status.