This is what I want: full templating engine, database based on hibernate, deployable as a war and a plugin system similar to Drupal or Wordpress.

There are a few existing systems that have a few of these, but not all. The big stumbling block is the plugin system. But there may be hope now.

The past few days I’ve been learning about OSGi and it looks it will fit the bill. Now I either have to write a cms with OSGi myself or wait for someone else to do it. I predict that within a year, fall 2009, there will be a cms that uses OSGi for plugins. Atleast that is what I am crossing my fingers for.