Because freemarker works and it runs from eclipse and ant and doesn't require fancy tooling to be useful. Does that mean I don't think we need better freemarker tooling ? no of course not, I would love it to be improved. Moving to xtext or something else would require much more effort than fixing a few issues in the freemarker editor AND it would affect *all* users of hibernate tools so i'm really not convinced that doing such a move is a Good thing. Note: Hibernate tools exporters is not in any way tied to use freemarker - you can create your own exporter that calls out to some other template framework. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4265314#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...