I have been experimenting with Webware since 0.4 and have produced some packages which are available from my home page.
You might want to look at the following resources:
XMLForms documentation is no longer available. Subsequent work is underway, however.
I'm working on a document which compares Python Web modules and frameworks to Java 2 Enterprise Edition frameworks. I believe it would be good to strengthen Webware's capability as a generic application server, but not necessarily by just copying from J2EE - there should be benefits in using Webware instead of J2EE application servers, just as there are benefits in using Python instead of Java for certain kinds of software development.