.launch files in maven or gradle

Question

What is the "correct"/better place to put eclipse's .launch files in a maven/gradle project? I want to commit my run configurations but I don't know where to put the files

I know maven and gradle are always about standarization so I rather ask than put them in a random folder and then get in trouble with some plugin

After creating a launcher on each maven module now I have each launcher appearing twice in eclipse. This is due to the fact that when I check out my multi-module project it creates an eclipse project for the top POM as well as for each child POM and all the files are "duplicated" in the Navigator view, once for the top and once for each module. This to me means that either I have some problem in my maven organization or that I am putting the launcher in the wrong place

Edit
Since I asked this question I learned of a new way to solve this. Enable an experimental feature in eclipse which will prevent the subprojects to appear in the top project. The setting is under windows/preferences/maven/Hide folders of physically nested modules

Answer 1

The standard location in Eclipse is in the project's root directory, that's where I always save them (and commit to SVN). Maven will ignore them there by default, so they will not show up in your artifacts.

One additional thing to keep in mind (since you mentioned that you want to commit the launch configurations to SCM and possibly share them with others): Avoid absolute paths in the launch configurations, since they will probably not work for other people. Try to use relative paths or Eclipse variables pointing to your local resources.

Edit: moved comment that answers the question

In this case you might consider moving them to a sub-directory (launch?). It should be one that is ignored by Maven by default (so not src/main/java or src/main/resources. On the other hand, I'm not sure whether Eclipse will pick up the files from a sub-directory... I've always kept them in the project root.