Java HTML Renderer

Hi all,
I wonder if any one could help me.
I have recently decided to undertake the writing of an HTML browser for a project, I have been researching the idea and come to a pretty deadish sort of end.
My research has taken me to various other browsers in java - Warrior, XBrowser etc. All have an HTML rendering engine create specifically for them (which I would like to do myself) however when I take a look at them, they are very in depth (to in depth - I just want HTML rendering).
So my question is: Does anyone know of some simple renderer frameworks which I could take a peek at to get a point in the right direction or some books which would give me idea how to get started writing a renderer?
Cheers,
Reacz

Thanks guys.
I really want to give it a go on my own, it doesn't neccesarily have to be 100% perfect (in fact it doesn't even have to render them well at all).
So, any ideas where else I could learn more about Renderers and how they are created for Java apps?
As I said I have looked at Warrior and a couple of others and they abide by the DOM (Document Object Model) but they are very complicated, I wanted something more simple (if thats possible).
Any books, or anything else anyone knows which may help me?
Regards & Thanks,
Reacz. :)

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