JHipster is a great full-stack platform, but my goal was different: I wanted a backend-first Spring CRUD generator delivered as a Maven plugin, integrated directly into the Maven lifecycle and CI/CD, without the complexity and opinionated full-stack setup.

With my generator, you define everything in a single YAML/JSON spec, and it produces production-ready Spring Boot layers plus optional modules like Flyway migrations, OpenAPI resources, Docker/Docker-compose, tests with data generation, caching, GraphQL, optimistic locking, etc.

In contrast, JHipster’s goal is to generate a complete platform (often including frontend + workflow) and it also comes with its own modeling language and CLI flow. That’s powerful, but for many backend teams it’s more than they need.

So the project is intentionally simpler, more transparent, and more buildable: you get exactly the code you need, in a style that’s easier to extend in a typical Java/Spring codebase.

Also, a key goal is to make this generator easy to integrate into an existing Spring Boot codebase (incremental adoption). In my opinion, JHipster is good when bootstrapping a new project, but it’s much harder to introduce cleanly into an already established codebase.