Zip file empty using maven assembly plugin in pom - maven

Question

my pom.xml but i have written something like
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<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.5.3</version>
<configuration>
<finalName>${project.artifactId}</finalName>
<descriptor>assembly.xml</descriptor>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>create-archive</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>single</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
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My assembly.xml is
<assembly
xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/assembly-1.1.0.xsd">
<id>${project.version}</id>
<includeBaseDirectory>false</includeBaseDirectory>
<formats>
<format>zip</format>
</formats>
<fileSets>
<fileSet>
<directory>${project.basedir}/${create.stage.directory}</directory>
<includes>
<include>*.*</include>
</includes>
<outputDirectory>${project.basedir}/${create.release.directory}</outputDirectory>
</fileSet>
</fileSets>
</assembly>
This creates an EMPTY foldername.zip in target!!NOT IN THE OUTPUT FOLDER LOCATION THAT I HAVE GIVEN.Is it always target? cant i override??
But in the given directory path I have 3 folders (in which some files) and readme.txt.I just tried giving *.txt inside include tag still I got empty zip folder. I initially guessed that my directory path and output directory path can be wrong.I directly hardcode still there is no luck.
Please help (This question is not duplicate but similar, and I have tried almost all stackoverflow questions related to this.they haven't solved anything)

Answer 1

For details see http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly.html#class_fileSet
Your descriptor is now configured like this:
create a zip called ${project.artifactId}
from the directory ${project.basedir}/${create.stage.directory} put all files with an extension (not directories, since it says *.*, not something like **/*.* in the ${project.basedir}/${create.release.directory} folder inside the zip.
Especially the last part is weird. Where in the zip should these files end? It should be a relative path to make it predictable.
Don't like the zip file to be created in target? Set the outputDirectory in the plugin configuration, not in the assembly descriptor.