Dependency module fails to load resource when used in the IT module - spring

Question

I'm working on a multi-module project which contains a service and an integration-tests module.
In the service module there is a service for some reset password functionality, based on Spring greenhouse which is using a template file which is expected to be loaded on initialization. While trying to solve this issue I changed slightly the initialization of the class based on the loaded file and moved it to xml configuration:
<bean id="resetPasswordMailMessageConverter" class="com.myapp.service.reset.ResetPasswordMailMessageConverter">
<constructor-arg name="resource">
<value>classpath*:**/spring/reset-password.st</value>
</constructor-arg>
</bean>
The service works fine once deployed and used in tomcat but there are issues when integration tests are executed : Unable to read template resource class path resource [classpath*:**/spring/reset-password.st]
I placed that file in both places serviceModule/META-INF/spring/ and integrationTestsModule/META-INF/spring/ but still it can't be found.
I placed some code both in service and in integration tests where I export the result of ClassLoader.getSystemResources("META-INF") and noticed that in both cases the integrationModule/target/test-classes/META-INF and the .m2/repository/../serviceModule.jar!META-INF are included in the exported path and the file is contained inside both META-INF/spring/ but not found.
I tried also keeping the file in the same package with the converter and initializing converter's resource as new ClassPathResource("reset-password.st", getClass().getClassLoader()) or new ClassPathResource("reset-password.st") but didn't work.
The structure of the project is mainModule->[mainSubmoduleA->[serviceModule, integrationTestsModule, etc], mainSubmoduleB[other modules]]
Any idea?
There's a basic layout of the project structure
Parts of the pom files:
main:
...........
<groupId>com.myapp</groupId>
<artifactId>mainModule</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>pom</packaging>
.............
<modules>
<module>mainSubmoduleA</module>
<module>mainSubmoduleB</module>
</modules>
mainSubmoduleA:
..............
<parent>
<groupId>com.myapp</groupId>
<artifactId>mainModule</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
</parent>
.........
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.myapp.mainsuba</groupId>
<artifactId>mainSubmoduleA</artifactId>
<packaging>pom</packaging>
<name>mainSubmoduleA</name>
..........
<modules>
<module>subModuleAA</module>
</modules>
...............
subModuleAA:
<parent>
<groupId>com.myapp.mainsuba</groupId>
<artifactId>mainSubmoduleA</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
</parent>
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.myapp.mainsuba.subaa</groupId>
<artifactId>subModuleAA</artifactId>
<packaging>pom</packaging>
<name>subModuleAA</name>
..........
<modules>
<module>service</module>
<module>web</module>
<module>integration</module>
</modules>
service:
<parent>
<groupId>com.myapp.mainsuba.subaa</groupId>
<artifactId>subModuleAA</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
</parent>
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.myapp.mainsuba.service</groupId>
<artifactId>service</artifactId>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<name>service</name>
web:
<parent>
<groupId>com.myapp.mainsuba.subaa</groupId>
<artifactId>subModuleAA</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
</parent>
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.myapp.mainsuba.web</groupId>
<artifactId>web</artifactId>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<name>web</name>
integration:
<parent>
<groupId>com.myapp.mainsuba.subaa</groupId>
<artifactId>subModuleAA</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
</parent>
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<artifactId>integration</artifactId>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<name>integration</name>
<description>Integration Tests</description>

Answer 1

Chris,
try setting the resource value without any ant-style wildcard matchers. I.e.:
<value>META-INF/spring/reset-password.st</value>
More info on wildcard restrictions can be found here: Other notes relating to wildcards