Maven: how to get a war package with resources copied in WEB-INF? - maven

Question

when I create a war package with maven, files and directories under the directory "src/main/resources" are copied in /WEB-INF/classes instead of /WEB-INF. How can I get them copied in /WEB-INF?
thanks,
rand
UPDATE:
in my pom now I use this:
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4.3</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>copy-resources</id>
<!-- here the phase you need -->
<phase>war</phase>
<goals>
<goal>copy-resources</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>myapp/target/WEB-INF</outputDirectory>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/resources</directory>
<filtering>true</filtering>
</resource>
</resources>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
and I launch mvn with:
mvn -Dmaven.test.skip=true clean package resources:copy-resources
but I got:
[INFO] One or more required plugin parameters are invalid/missing for 'resources:copy-resources'
[0] Inside the definition for plugin 'maven-resources-plugin' specify the following:
<configuration>
...
<outputDirectory>VALUE</outputDirectory>
</configuration>.
[1] Inside the definition for plugin 'maven-resources-plugin' specify the following:
<configuration>
...
<resources>VALUE</resources>
</configuration>.
I'm using maven 2.2 and the snippet basically is the same of the documentation
any idea?

Answer 1

either configure the outputDirectory parameter of resources:resources plugin, or put your files under src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/ directory.
resource plugin
EDIT:
This configuration is working for me:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4.2</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>default-copy-resources</id>
<phase>process-resources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>copy-resources</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<overwrite>true</overwrite>
<outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}/WEB-INF/</outputDirectory>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>${project.basedir}/src/main/resources</directory>
</resource>
</resources>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
you can run a phase in the form somePhase or a goal somePlugin:someGoal. The phase invocations will invoke all plugins goals hooked on phases in interval [validate,phase] in order, so there's no need to explicitly call them.

Answer 2

Web resources are not the same as java resources, which should be placed in the classpath. Web resources are processed via the war plugin and should be placed into src\main\webapp\WEB-INF\. In this case, it will work automatically without any additional configuration in the pom.xml

Answer 3

This configuration is working add plugin pom.xml
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3.2</version>
<configuration>
<source>${jdk.version}</source>
<target>${jdk.version}</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3</version>
<configuration>
<webResources>
<!--copy resource file location-->
<resource>
<directory>${project.build.directory}/classes</directory>
</resource>
</webResources>
<!--location for add file-->
<webappDirectory>${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}</webappDirectory>
</configuration>
</plugin>