I've been waiting for something like this for a long time. Despite being in a rough state (it's only alpha right now), it does a good job and seems pretty stable.

I'm eagerly awaiting to see how this develops.

Yet another great tool from the JXtended team makes your Joomla site even more powerful and usable.

My site requires not only a powerful search engine, but one that can be customized in just about every way imaginable. Users can search specific sections, categories or even DOCman or other component content. While the built-in Joomla search searched your content on-the-fly, JX Finder indexes your site (like phpBB or other software) and this makes all the difference in the world when in comes to search speed for your site visitors (around 5000 matches in about a second!).

JX Finder also integrates with JX Labels, Eventlist, JX Magazine, and others. If you're looking for a simple and powerful search that's second to none, look no further than JX Finder.

Not only has JXtended invested their Comments and ACL extensions into Joomla 1.6, the JX team has produced a top-notch tool with Labels.

Labels allows you to tag your content with relevant keywords. Then it creates tag lists and clouds to find and cross-reference your content. Tag clouds (also known as "weighted lists") are great "Google bait" and give your users an easy way to instantly track down relevant content on your site. Then when users locate what they're looking for they also find related items, which makes your site "stickier" than ever.

Labels comes with the core component, a plugin, and a few modules to display the tags in various formats. It's compatible with the other JX components, is Joomla 1.5 native, and is bargain-priced. Highly recommended.

A great step forward for a once-dilapidated forum. The initial release has fixed a bunch of bugs and there are great ideas in the planned roadmap. If you want a forum that's tightly integrated with Joomla, you'd be hard-pressed to find anything better.

This is better than the other options available for RSS feeds, but that's not saying much. Though the rollover feature is "slick," the built-in component in Joomla allows for images and excerpts on each article...this module doesn't. If the same functionality is added to this module, it will be a winner. Seems to be a pretty sturdy module after a fair amount of testing.

The latest version now uses CSS styles for the comments & comment form (any customization would get deleted with each upgrade before) so it works much better.

The developer seems pretty receptive to feature requests.