Using Java7, fetch instance name or uuid WITHOUT Connector class?

[Ott, Charles H.]

I am making a more user friendly (Swing) tool for performing import/exports of 
table data via hadoop.io.sequencefile. (Currently using Accumulo 1.5.0 w/ 
cdh4u5)

The first thing I do is load a list of tables into a swing component using the 
http://monitorURL/xml URL and JAXB:

    private void loadTables() {
        try {
            jaxbContext = JAXBContext.newInstance(Stats.class);
            jaxbUnmarshaller = jaxbContext.createUnmarshaller();
            jaxbMarshaller = jaxbContext.createMarshaller();

            Stats stats = (Stats) jaxbUnmarshaller.unmarshal(
                    new URL("http://"; 
                            + associatedHost.getHostname() 
                            + ":" 
                            + associatedHost.getUi_port() 
                            + "/xml"));
            String results = new String();
            for (Table t : stats.getTables().getTable()) {
                results = results.concat(t.getTablename() + "\r\n");
            }
            jEditorPane1.setText(results);
        } catch (Exception err) {
            err.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

Then I create a ZooKeeperInstance, and call the 'getConnector' method to get a 
connector used for scanning:
        try {
            connector = zooInstance.getConnector(username, password.getBytes());
            getUserAuths();
        } catch (Exception err) {
            err.printStackTrace();
        }

Since, I now have the connector, I can get the 'user' Authorizations class for 
the export tool's client.Scanner:
        
        this.authorizations = 
connector.securityOperations().getUserAuthorizations(username);

The part I am not sure how to do is automatically determine the 'instance name' 
or 'instance uuid' when constructing the ZooKeeperInstance.  I can see both 
strings displayed on the header of the Accumulo Monitor:

<div 
id='subheader'>Instance&nbsp;Name:&nbsp;gm&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Version:&nbsp;1.5.0
<br><span 
class='smalltext'>Instance&nbsp;ID:&nbsp;a85286bf-031c-4e24-9b47-f6aca34401b8</span>
<br><span 
class='smalltext'>Tue&nbsp;Jan&nbsp;28&nbsp;12:15:41&nbsp;EST&nbsp;2014</span></div>
</div>

But I do not see any 'clean' way to retrieve it using the Java API, without 
doing a parse of the monitor's HTML.  Which feels dirty.

This leaves me with one option, for the user to specify the instance name 
before clicking 'Export Tables'.  Which I think is a bit silly considering the 
user has already entered and saved the MonitorURL, dbUsername and dbPassword 
within the tool.  Thoughts?

Thanks in advance to anyone who read this far!