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

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.