I realize this is probably not the place to ask this, but my newbie status prevents otherwise.

I'm currently developing a website that will accept bitcoins, and at first glance, what makes the most sense is to run my own instance of bitcoind on the server that hosts the site, and use the json api to send and recieve bitcoins.
My main issue with doing so, is that currently, I don't see a good way to handle receiving bitcoins. The best option I can see is to continuously poll bitcoind to check for new transactions. Am I missing something?

Are there any plans in the future for a feature of bitcoind to notify over JSON-SSL when a new transaction has a certain number of confirmations?
After briefly flipping through the source code, it doesn't seem like this would be a major task.