POM How to include properties file inside a jar. The pom also creates a war - maven

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I developed a pom that creates a war file and a jar file. How do I insert a properties file into the JAR(not the war)? The file I need to insert into the JAR is located in the directory, properties/its, within the project. You can see in the pom below in the maven-resources-plugin where I have attempted to add the properties file in the package phase with the associated jar goal. Then I tried again in the maven-jar-plugin, using the process-resources phase and jar goal.
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>xxx.xx.Lookup</groupId>
<artifactId>lookup</artifactId>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<version>${env.ENVIRONMENT}</version>
<name>elookup</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<description>Lookup</description>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>xxx.xxx.utils</groupId>
<artifactId>Utils</artifactId>
<version>${env.ENVIRONMENT}</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<parent>
<groupId>xxx.xx.parent_project</groupId>
<artifactId>xxxProject</artifactId>
<version>master-version-1.0</version>
<relativePath>../Project/pom.xml</relativePath>
</parent>
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>development</id>
<activation>
<activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
</activation>
<properties>
<env>${env.ENVIRONMENT}</env>
</properties>
</profile>
<profile>
<id>test</id>
<properties>
<env>${env.ENVIRONMENT}</env>
</properties>
</profile>
<profile>
<id>production</id>
<properties>
<env>${env.ENVIRONMENT}</env>
</properties>
</profile>
</profiles>
<build>
<finalName>${project.name}-${project.version}</finalName>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.1.1</version>
<configuration>
<archive>
<addMavenDescriptor>false</addMavenDescriptor>
</archive>
<webResources>
<resource>
<!-- this is relative to the pom.xml directory -->
<directory>properties/its</directory>
<!-- override the destination directory for this resource -->
<targetPath>properties/its</targetPath>
</resource>
<resource>
<!-- this is relative to the pom.xml directory -->
<directory>src/main/webapp/META-INF</directory>
<!-- override the destination directory for this resource -->
<targetPath>META-INF</targetPath>
<filtering>true</filtering>
</resource>
<resource>
<!-- this is relative to the pom.xml directory -->
<directory>src/main/webapp/WEB-INF</directory>
<!-- override the destination directory for this resource -->
<targetPath>WEB-INF</targetPath>
<filtering>true</filtering>
</resource>
<resource>
<!-- this is relative to the pom.xml directory -->
<directory>images</directory>
<!-- override the destination directory for this resource -->
<targetPath>images</targetPath>
</resource>
<resource>
<!-- this is relative to the pom.xml directory -->
<directory>style</directory>
<!-- override the destination directory for this resource -->
<targetPath>style</targetPath>
</resource>
<resource>
<!-- this is relative to the pom.xml directory -->
<directory>html</directory>
<!-- override the destination directory for this resource -->
<targetPath>.</targetPath>
</resource>
</webResources>
<packagingExcludes>WEB-INF/lib/stax-api-1.0.1.jar</packagingExcludes>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-eclipse-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.8</version>
<configuration>
<downloadSources>true</downloadSources>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4</version>
<configuration>
<!-- specify UTF-8, ISO-8859-1 or any other file encoding -->
<encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>make-a-jar</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>jar</goal>
</goals>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>properties/its</directory>
<includes>
<include>**/*</include>
</includes>
<!-- <targetPath>.</targetPath> -->
</resource>
</resources>
</execution>
</executions>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>make-a-jar</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>jar</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<archive>
<addMavenDescriptor>false</addMavenDescriptor>
<manifest>
<addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
</manifest>
</archive>
</configuration>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>jar-resources</id>
<phase>process-resources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>jar</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>properties/its</directory>
<targetPath>.</targetPath>
</resource>
</resources>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4</version>
<configuration>
<descriptor>src/main/assembly/jar.xml</descriptor>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>make-assembly</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>single</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/resources</directory>
<filtering>true</filtering>
</resource>
</resources>
<filters>
<filter>../../Project/workspace/src/main/filters/eddb.${env.ENVIRONMENT}.properties</filter>
</filters>
</build>
</project>

Answer 1

How do I insert a properties file into the JAR(not the war)? The file I need to insert into the JAR is located in the directory, properties/its, within the project.
Before package the jar use maven-antrun-plugin to copy your file into the same directory the maven-jar-plugin uses as source directory for jar-ing.