Hi

I would really like to see an official hibernate-tools maven plugin.
Currently maven users can use the maven ant plugin to run the hibernate-tools ant task, but this feels somehow wrong as a proper maven user.
Also one has to get accustomed to the awkwardness of ant within maven which is IMHO not the way to go.

Therefore I would like to propose to provide a maven plugin for hibernate-tools.
As I have created such a plugin by myself I would like to propose to integrate this plugin into hibernate-tools or at least integrate it as official plugin.
https://github.com/stadler/hibernate-tools-maven-plugin
I know that it does not support all the functionality of the ant task yet, but at least entity and ddl generation from the database already works. More features to come...

I already created a JIRA ticket for this: https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HBX-1516

What are your thoughts about this?

I think it's a better idea to simply provide a Pull Request to the official GitHub repository for Hibernate Tools:

https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-tools

And attach the PR to the issue on Jira.