jHipster: how to generate only entities during jdl import or entities plus dto and mappers? Answer To generate just entities (and skip application JDL generation), you can pass –ignore-application. The full command will look like: jhipster import-jdl jhipster-jdl.jh –ignore-application If you want DTOs and Mappers, add dto * with mapstruct to the bottom of your JDL. More info in the