diff --git a/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/kernelmanager.py b/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/kernelmanager.py
index 484cec0..b71ee7a 100644
--- a/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/kernelmanager.py
+++ b/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/kernelmanager.py
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 """A kernel manager for multiple kernels."""
 
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Imports
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
 import logging
 import signal
 import sys
@@ -11,6 +15,9 @@ from IPython.config.configurable import Configurable
 from IPython.zmq.ipkernel import launch_kernel
 from IPython.utils.traitlets import Instance, Dict, Unicode
 
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Classes
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 class DuplicateKernelError(Exception):
     pass
diff --git a/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/notebookapp.py b/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/notebookapp.py
index fef5782..8ac9856 100644
--- a/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/notebookapp.py
+++ b/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/notebookapp.py
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+"""A tornado based IPython notebook server."""
+
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Imports
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
 import logging
 import os
 
@@ -14,22 +20,30 @@ from tornado import options
 from tornado import web
 
 from kernelmanager import KernelManager
+from sessionmanager import SessionManager
 from handlers import (
     MainHandler, KernelHandler, KernelActionHandler, ZMQStreamHandler,
     NotebookRootHandler, NotebookHandler
 )
 from routers import IOPubStreamRouter, ShellStreamRouter
 
-options.define("port", default=8888, help="run on the given port", type=int)
+from IPython.core.application import BaseIPythonApplication
+from IPython.zmq.session import Session
+
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Module globals
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 _kernel_id_regex = r"(?P<kernel_id>\w+-\w+-\w+-\w+-\w+)"
 _kernel_action_regex = r"(?P<action>restart|interrupt)"
 
-
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# The Tornado web application
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 class NotebookWebApplication(web.Application):
 
-    def __init__(self):
+    def __init__(self, kernel_manager, log):
         handlers = [
             (r"/", MainHandler),
             (r"/kernels", KernelHandler),
@@ -45,9 +59,8 @@ class NotebookWebApplication(web.Application):
         )
         web.Application.__init__(self, handlers, **settings)
 
-        self.context = zmq.Context()
-        self.kernel_manager = KernelManager(self.context)
-        self._session_dict = {}
+        self.kernel_manager = kernel_manager
+        self.log = log
         self._routers = {}
 
     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -59,14 +72,32 @@ class NotebookWebApplication(web.Application):
         return self.kernel_manager.kernel_ids
 
     def start_kernel(self):
+        # TODO: pass command line options to the kernel in start_kernel()
         kernel_id = self.kernel_manager.start_kernel()
-        logging.info("Kernel started: %s" % kernel_id)
-        self.start_session(kernel_id)
+        self.log.info("Kernel started: %s" % kernel_id)
+        self.start_session_manager(kernel_id)
         return kernel_id
 
+    def start_session_manager(self, kernel_id):
+        sm = self.kernel_manager.create_session_manager(kernel_id)
+        self._session_dict[kernel_id] = sm
+        iopub_stream = sm.get_iopub_stream()
+        shell_stream = sm.get_shell_stream()
+        iopub_router = IOPubStreamRouter(iopub_stream)
+        shell_router = ShellStreamRouter(shell_stream)
+        self._routers[(kernel_id, 'iopub')] = iopub_router
+        self._routers[(kernel_id, 'shell')] = shell_router
+        self.log.debug("Session manager started for kernel: %s" % kernel_id)
+
+    def kill_kernel(self, kernel_id):
+        sm = self._session_dict.pop(kernel_id)
+        sm.stop()
+        self.kernel_manager.kill_kernel(kernel_id)
+        self.log.info("Kernel killed: %s" % kernel_id)
+
     def interrupt_kernel(self, kernel_id):
         self.kernel_manager.interrupt_kernel(kernel_id)
-        logging.info("Kernel interrupted: %s" % kernel_id)
+        self.log.debug("Kernel interrupted: %s" % kernel_id)
 
     def restart_kernel(self, kernel_id):
         # Create the new kernel first so we can move the clients over.
@@ -84,48 +115,106 @@ class NotebookWebApplication(web.Application):
         # TODO: This causes a hard crash in ZMQStream.close, which sets
         # self.socket to None to hastily. We will need to fix this in PyZMQ
         # itself. For now, we just leave the old kernel running :(
-        # sm = self.kernel_manager.get_session_manager(kernel_id)
-        # session_id = self._session_dict[kernel_id]
-        # sm.stop_session(session_id)
-        # self.kernel_manager.kill_kernel(kernel_id)
+        # self.kill_kernel(kernel_id)
 
-        logging.info("Kernel restarted")
+        self.log.debug("Kernel restarted: %s -> %s" % (kernel_id, new_kernel_id))
         return new_kernel_id
 
-    def start_session(self, kernel_id):
-        sm = self.kernel_manager.get_session_manager(kernel_id)
-        session_id = sm.start_session()
-        self._session_dict[kernel_id] = session_id
-        iopub_stream = sm.get_iopub_stream(session_id)
-        shell_stream = sm.get_shell_stream(session_id)
-        iopub_router = IOPubStreamRouter(iopub_stream)
-        shell_router = ShellStreamRouter(shell_stream)
-        self._routers[(kernel_id, session_id, 'iopub')] = iopub_router
-        self._routers[(kernel_id, session_id, 'shell')] = shell_router
-        logging.info("Session started: %s, %s" % (kernel_id, session_id))
-
-    def stop_session(self, kernel_id):
-        # TODO: finish this!
-        sm = self.kernel_manager.get_session_manager(kernel_id)
-        session_id = self._session_dict[kernel_id]
-
     def get_router(self, kernel_id, stream_name):
-        session_id = self._session_dict[kernel_id]
-        router = self._routers[(kernel_id, session_id, stream_name)]
+        router = self._routers[(kernel_id, stream_name)]
         return router
 
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Aliases and Flags
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+flags = dict(ipkernel_flags)
+
+# the flags that are specific to the frontend
+# these must be scrubbed before being passed to the kernel,
+# or it will raise an error on unrecognized flags
+notebook_flags = []
+
+aliases = dict(ipkernel_aliases)
+
+aliases.update(dict(
+    ip = 'IPythonNotebookApp.ip',
+    port = 'IPythonNotebookApp.port'
+    colors = 'ZMQInteractiveShell.colors',
+    editor = 'IPythonWidget.editor',
+))
+
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# IPythonNotebookApp
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+class IPythonNotebookApp(BaseIPythonApplication):
+    name = 'ipython-notebook'
+    default_config_file_name='ipython_notebook_config.py'
+    
+    description = """
+        The IPython HTML Notebook.
+        
+        This launches a Tornado based HTML Notebook Server that serves up an
+        HTML5/Javascript Notebook client.
+    """
+    
+    classes = [IPKernelApp, ZMQInteractiveShell, ProfileDir, Session,
+               KernelManager, SessionManager]
+    flags = Dict(flags)
+    aliases = Dict(aliases)
+
+    kernel_argv = List(Unicode)
+
+    # connection info:
+    ip = Unicode(LOCALHOST, config=True,
+        help="The IP address the notebook server will listen on."
+    )
+
+    port = Int(8888, config=True,
+        help="The port the notebook server will listen on."
+    )
+
+    # the factory for creating a widget
+    widget_factory = Any(RichIPythonWidget)
+
+    def parse_command_line(self, argv=None):
+        super(IPythonNotebookApp, self).parse_command_line(argv)
+        if argv is None:
+            argv = sys.argv[1:]
+
+        self.kernel_argv = list(argv) # copy
+        # kernel should inherit default config file from frontend
+        self.kernel_argv.append("KernelApp.parent_appname='%s'"%self.name)
+        # scrub frontend-specific flags
+        for a in argv:
+            if a.startswith('--') and a[2:] in qt_flags:
+                self.kernel_argv.remove(a)
+
+    def init_kernel_manager(self):
+        # Don't let Qt or ZMQ swallow KeyboardInterupts.
+        signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, signal.SIG_DFL)
+
+        # Create a KernelManager and start a kernel.
+        self.kernel_manager = KernelManager(config=self.config, log=self.log)
+
+    def initialize(self, argv=None):
+        super(IPythonNotebookApp, self).initialize(argv)
+        self.init_kernel_mananger()
+        self.web_app = NotebookWebApplication()
+        self.http_server = httpserver.HTTPServer(self.web_app)
+        self.http_server.listen(self.port)
+
+    def start(self):
+        self.log.info("The IPython Notebook is running at: http://%s:%i" % (self.ip, self.port))
+        ioloop.IOLoop.instance().start()
+
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Main entry point
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 def launch_new_instance():
-    options.parse_command_line()
-    application = NotebookWebApplication()
-    http_server = httpserver.HTTPServer(application)
-    http_server.listen(options.options.port)
-    print "IPython Notebook running at: http://127.0.0.1:8888"
-    print "The github master of tornado is required to run this server:"
-    print "    https://github.com/facebook/tornado/tree/master/tornado"
-    ioloop.IOLoop.instance().start()
-
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    main()
+    app = IPythonNotebookApp()
+    app.initialize()
+    app.start()
 
diff --git a/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/sessionmanager.py b/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/sessionmanager.py
index 86e04d4..800fd6e 100644
--- a/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/sessionmanager.py
+++ b/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/sessionmanager.py
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 """A manager for session and channels for a single kernel."""
 
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Imports
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
 import zmq
 from zmq.eventloop.zmqstream import ZMQStream
 
@@ -10,6 +14,10 @@ from IPython.zmq.session import SessionFactory
 class SessionManagerRunningError(Exception):
     pass
 
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Classes
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
 
 class SessionManager(SessionFactory):
     """Manages a session for a kernel.
diff --git a/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/tests/test_kernelsession.py b/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/tests/test_kernelsession.py
index 30f4ca6..96d56af 100644
--- a/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/tests/test_kernelsession.py
+++ b/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/tests/test_kernelsession.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+"""Tests for the notebook kernel and session manager."""
 
 from unittest import TestCase
 
diff --git a/IPython/frontend/terminal/ipapp.py b/IPython/frontend/terminal/ipapp.py
index a10b95e..30011e8 100755
--- a/IPython/frontend/terminal/ipapp.py
+++ b/IPython/frontend/terminal/ipapp.py
@@ -195,6 +195,9 @@ class TerminalIPythonApp(BaseIPythonApplication, InteractiveShellApp):
         qtconsole=('IPython.frontend.qt.console.qtconsoleapp.IPythonQtConsoleApp',
             """Launch the IPython Qt Console."""
         ),
+        hotebook=('IPython.frontend.html.notebook.notebookapp.IPythonNotebookApp',
+            """Launch the IPython HTML Notebook Server"""
+        ),
         profile = ("IPython.core.profileapp.ProfileApp",
             "Create and manage IPython profiles.")
     ))