Maven exclude resources not working

Question

I googled for my issue but I was not able in finding solution; I'm using maven 3.1.2 I have this profile in my pom.xml

<profile>
            <id>test</id>
            <build>
                <finalName>CustomWebAppName</finalName>
                <resources>         
                    <resource>
                        <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
                        <excludes>
                            <exclude>environmentConfiguration.properties</exclude>
                        </excludes>
                    </resource>
                    <resource>
                        <directory>resourcesTest</directory>
                        <includes>
                            <include>environmentConfiguration.properties</include>
                        </includes>                     
                    </resource>                     
                </resources>                
                <plugins>
                    <plugin>
                        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                        <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
                        <version>2.4</version>
                        <configuration>
                            <outputDirectory>testDist</outputDirectory>
                            <warSourceDirectory>WebContent</warSourceDirectory>
                        </configuration>
                    </plugin>
                </plugins>              
            </build>
        </profile>

As you can see I'm simply telling maven: when you build the test profile you must ignore the file "environmentConfiguration.properties" in folder src/main/resources and consider the file "environmentConfiguration.properties" in resourcesTest

Well when I launch the command mvn clean install -P test my final web application always contains the "environmentConfiguration.properties" file located in src/main/resources and doesn't contain the one in resourcesTest I add to the question my fully debug log file generated by maven Please note this file will be available till November 12nd 2015

Can anybody tell me where I'm wrong?

thank you Angelo

Answer 1

I don't know exactly whether this is your problem or a typo in your question but there shouldn't be any space between -P and test

try this instead

mvn clean install -Ptest

EDIT

try to enable filtering

<profile>
            <id>test</id>
            <build>
                <finalName>CustomWebAppName</finalName>
                <resources>         
                    <resource>
                        <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
                        <filtering>true</filtering>
                        <excludes>
                            <exclude>environmentConfiguration.properties</exclude>
                        </excludes>
                    </resource>
                    <resource>
                        <directory>resourcesTest</directory>
                        <filtering>true</filtering>
                        <includes>
                            <include>environmentConfiguration.properties</include>
                        </includes>                     
                    </resource>                     
                </resources>                
                <plugins>
                    <plugin>
                        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                        <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
                        <version>2.4</version>
                        <configuration>
                            <outputDirectory>testDist</outputDirectory>
                            <warSourceDirectory>WebContent</warSourceDirectory>
                        </configuration>
                    </plugin>
                </plugins>              
            </build>
        </profile>