diff --git a/asterix-app/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/api/http/servlet/QueryResultAPIServlet.java b/asterix-app/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/api/http/servlet/QueryResultAPIServlet.java
index a3c210a..f4b091a 100644
--- a/asterix-app/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/api/http/servlet/QueryResultAPIServlet.java
+++ b/asterix-app/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/api/http/servlet/QueryResultAPIServlet.java
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@
 import org.json.JSONArray;
 import org.json.JSONObject;
 
-import edu.uci.ics.asterix.result.ResultUtils;
 import edu.uci.ics.asterix.result.ResultReader;
+import edu.uci.ics.asterix.result.ResultUtils;
 import edu.uci.ics.asterix.runtime.formats.FormatUtils;
 import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.client.HyracksConnection;
 import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.client.IHyracksClientConnection;
diff --git a/asterix-app/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/api/http/servlet/QueryStatusAPIServlet.java b/asterix-app/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/api/http/servlet/QueryStatusAPIServlet.java
index 818790b..964c4b0 100644
--- a/asterix-app/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/api/http/servlet/QueryStatusAPIServlet.java
+++ b/asterix-app/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/api/http/servlet/QueryStatusAPIServlet.java
@@ -16,24 +16,21 @@
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.PrintWriter;
-import java.io.StringReader;
-import java.util.List;
 
 import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
 import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
 import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
 import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
 
-import edu.uci.ics.asterix.api.common.APIFramework.DisplayFormat;
-import edu.uci.ics.asterix.api.common.SessionConfig;
-import edu.uci.ics.asterix.aql.base.Statement;
-import edu.uci.ics.asterix.aql.parser.AQLParser;
-import edu.uci.ics.asterix.aql.parser.ParseException;
-import edu.uci.ics.asterix.aql.translator.AqlTranslator;
-import edu.uci.ics.asterix.metadata.MetadataManager;
+import org.json.JSONArray;
+import org.json.JSONObject;
+
 import edu.uci.ics.asterix.result.ResultReader;
+import edu.uci.ics.asterix.runtime.formats.FormatUtils;
 import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.client.HyracksConnection;
 import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.client.IHyracksClientConnection;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.dataset.ResultSetId;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.job.JobId;
 
 public class QueryStatusAPIServlet extends HttpServlet {
     private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
@@ -42,47 +39,53 @@
 
     @Override
     public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException {
-        String query = request.getParameter("query");
-        String strIP = request.getParameter("hyracks-ip");
-        String strPort = request.getParameter("hyracks-port");
-        int port = Integer.parseInt(strPort);
+        String strHandle = request.getParameter("handle");
         PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
         response.setContentType("text/html");
         ServletContext context = getServletContext();
         IHyracksClientConnection hcc;
-        ResultReader resultReader;
         try {
+            HyracksProperties hp = new HyracksProperties();
+            String strIP = hp.getHyracksIPAddress();
+            int port = hp.getHyracksPort();
+
             synchronized (context) {
                 hcc = (IHyracksClientConnection) context.getAttribute(HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR);
                 if (hcc == null) {
                     hcc = new HyracksConnection(strIP, port);
                     context.setAttribute(HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR, hcc);
                 }
-                resultReader = new ResultReader(hcc, out);
-                new Thread(resultReader).start();
             }
-            AQLParser parser = new AQLParser(new StringReader(query));
-            List<Statement> aqlStatements = parser.Statement();
-            SessionConfig sessionConfig = new SessionConfig(port, true, false, false, false, false, false, false, false);
+            JSONObject handleObj = new JSONObject(strHandle);
+            JSONArray handle = handleObj.getJSONArray("handle");
+            JobId jobId = new JobId(handle.getLong(0));
+            ResultSetId rsId = new ResultSetId(handle.getLong(1));
 
-            MetadataManager.INSTANCE.init();
+            /* TODO(madhusudancs): We need to find a way to JSON serialize default format obtained from
+             * metadataProvider in the AQLTranslator and store it as part of the result handle.
+             */
+            ResultReader resultReader = new ResultReader(hcc, FormatUtils.getDefaultFormat());
+            resultReader.open(jobId, rsId);
 
-            AqlTranslator aqlTranslator = new AqlTranslator(aqlStatements, out, sessionConfig, DisplayFormat.HTML);
-
-            aqlTranslator.compileAndExecute(hcc, resultReader);
-
-        } catch (ParseException pe) {
-            String message = pe.getMessage();
-            message = message.replace("<", "&lt");
-            message = message.replace(">", "&gt");
-            out.println("SyntaxError:" + message);
-            int pos = message.indexOf("line");
-            if (pos > 0) {
-                int columnPos = message.indexOf(",", pos + 1 + "line".length());
-                int lineNo = Integer.parseInt(message.substring(pos + "line".length() + 1, columnPos));
-                String line = query.split("\n")[lineNo - 1];
-                out.println("==> " + line);
+            JSONObject jsonResponse = new JSONObject();
+            String status;
+            switch (resultReader.getStatus()) {
+                case RUNNING:
+                    status = "RUNNING";
+                    break;
+                case FAILED:
+                    status = "ERROR";
+                    break;
+                case SUCCESS:
+                    status = "SUCCESS";
+                    break;
+                default:
+                    status = "ERROR";
+                    break;
             }
+            jsonResponse.put("status", status);
+            out.write(jsonResponse.toString());
+
         } catch (Exception e) {
             out.println(e.getMessage());
             e.printStackTrace(out);
diff --git a/asterix-app/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/result/ResultReader.java b/asterix-app/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/result/ResultReader.java
index 3ae7615..8137e02 100644
--- a/asterix-app/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/result/ResultReader.java
+++ b/asterix-app/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/result/ResultReader.java
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 import edu.uci.ics.asterix.formats.base.IDataFormat;
 import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.client.IHyracksClientConnection;
 import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.dataflow.value.RecordDescriptor;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.dataset.DatasetDirectoryRecord.Status;
 import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.dataset.IHyracksDataset;
 import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.dataset.ResultSetId;
 import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.exceptions.HyracksDataException;
@@ -63,6 +64,10 @@
         frameTupleAccessor = new FrameTupleAccessor(datasetClientCtx.getFrameSize(), recordDescriptor);
     }
 
+    public Status getStatus() {
+        return hyracksDataset.getResultStatus();
+    }
+
     public int read(ByteBuffer buffer) throws HyracksDataException {
         return hyracksDataset.read(buffer);
     }