Hi Darren,
thanks a lot for your feedback, very much appreciated.
Yes, atm the gui is meant to be deployed on JBoss AS only, not on Tomcat (many libraries are not included in the deployment archive as they're already available on JBoss AS).
I've created a few new feature jiras for some of your proposal above:
* https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WISE-190
* https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WISE-191
* https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WISE-192
* https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WISE-193
* https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WISE-194
Some of them are tentatively scheduled for next 2.0.1 version, the others for future releases.