I'm attempting to learn Spring MVC but have been spoiled by Grails. While I am able to get a basic web application working I was wondering if there were any tools that could do some of the work to create a crud application given a database or hibernate data model? The only one I've found so far is http://www.skywayperspectives.org/portal/web/guest/downloads/overview I'm not sure how to take the generated code and convert it to use either maven or ant for it's build process.
Telosys does this job : http://www.telosys.org
If you have a database it will use it as a model to generate the code (JPA entities, etc)
Standard templates bundles are available to generate a fully operational web application with CRUD screens