Adding existing source packages to a Maven Web Application in Netbeans - maven

I have a normal Netbeans project, and I would like to add the source packages of this project to a project that is a Maven Web Application, also within Netbeans.
I tried copy-pasting the packages into the /src project directory of the Maven application, but this doesn't seem to work.
Could someone please tell me how I could do this ?
If this is not possible, could someone tell me if I can convert the entire normal project into a Maven Web Application ? Thank you :)

It sounds like you need to add the dependency to your web-application instead of the source code, cause maven is intended to handle exactly such situations.

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Have a great day :)
I just add the example when you put jquery in webapp
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src/main/resources This is where you put your resources like your xml files. Things that aren't java classes but need to be in your classpath. If you put them under /java, they won't be copied into your classpath so you have to put them here.
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