Some JPublish 2.0 suggestions

You might already be thinking along this line with the changes you mentioned in the newsletter with respect to template handling.  I would like to see the template system follow a more hierarchal structure, possibly allowing the developer to embed templates within templates and maybe even allowing actions to be associated with the embeded templates.  I think this type of change could pave the way for content management extensions, where the meta data needed for access control and such can be stored in the template and the template can be plugged into the overall application...  I Hope this makes sense?

Maybe as a seperate project, I would love to see an Eclipse plugin for JPublish (a lot of source is already available that could be tweaked).

I found the FormProc module a bit difficult to understand, a possible thought is to integrate the upcoming JavaServer Faces.

I like the DB module, but I like O/R mapping like Hibernate better.

Possible a SOAP web services module?

If you are allowing content to be pulled from other sites, does this include storing state information from the other site?  Would it be possible to pull the whole login process, or pull shopping cart's for individual users as content from another site?  Would being able to keep state actually be useful?

Just some thoughts, keep up the good work.

Chris