Greg,
On the 3rd page of the RE wizard (only in 4.1M2), expand the table and select your column. In the Hibernate Type field, type in “string” and that should do it for you.
This setting is saved in a reverse engineering settings file and will be used for all generation henceforth so you don’t have to do this repeatedly.
FYI: For standard JDBC types (TEXT is not a standard JDBC type) you can make a global setting on the second page of the RE wizard, click “Add” and then proceed to edit the row with your JDBC -> Hibernate type mapping.
Let us know if this works for you.
Best,
Brian.