Maven install folder structure problem j2ee (spring, struts ..)

Question

i'm using maven 2.1-SNAPSHOT as eclipse plugin. My project structure is like this:

src/main/java
   -model
   -service
   -action
src/test/java
   empty atm
src/main/resources
   empty atm
src/test/resources
   empty atm
src/main/webapp
   -js
    -dojo
   -META-INF
   -WEB-INF
     web.xml
     appcontext.xml
     struts.xml
   index.jsp

I'm having trouble understanding the build process and where to put which file. I use as Application Server Jetty but i want to deploy my project on tomcat as well (so i have set up in my pom packaging war).

When i run my project with the maven:install command my target folder looks like this: myproject.war
war
   not relevant
test-classes
   empty atm
myproject
   js
   META-INF
   WEB-INF
   index.jsp
classes
   model
   service
   action

My problem is that i need in the classes folder my persistence.xml which i have in META-INF. And struts.xml too i guess. I'm not sure about dojo either if it is right there. And honestly i don't know if this structure is right at all. I also dont know how to configure that the output changes.

I hope somebody can help me i really want to understand this process how it should be right, maybe there are even nice ressources to lookup to get better at these things. Thanks in advance kukudas

Answer 1

I believe files that you want deployed to the classpath go in the resources/ folder.

Take a look at the Maven in 5 Minutes guide, along with the Getting Started guide.