I just pushed some fixes to the IntelliJ project generation from Gradle (thanks Szczepan for the help!). It now works much better out of the box. You still have to set up copyrights and possibly codestyles depending on how you defined codestyles. Until Gradle 1.0-milestone-3 is released, you should use the gradlew command to run the IntelliJ generation (it uses a Gradle SNAPSHOT): ./gradlew idea -- Steve Ebersole <steve(a)hibernate.org&gt; http://hibernate.org