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Maven - Resources

About

Maven supports two kinds of resources.

Type

Application

application resources or resources that the application needs

Test

Test resources used during the test phase and that is not deployed

Configuration

Pom

Maven - pom.xml - Project Object Model. See https://maven.apache.org/pom.html#Resources 

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
  <build>
    ...
    <! -- a list of resource elements that each describe what and where to include files associated with this project -->
    <resources>
      <resource>
        <!-- Source Directory (Default: ${basedir}/src/main/resources) -->
        <directory>${basedir}/src/main/plexus</directory>
        <!-- Target path in the build: 
                default value: base directory
                for a Jar: a common value is META-INF.
        -->
        <targetPath>META-INF/plexus</targetPath>
        <!-- TRUE or FALSE -->
        <filtering>false</filtering>
        <!-- A set of include files patterns using * as a wildcard. -->
        <includes>
          <include>configuration.xml</include>
        </includes>
        <!-- A set of exclude files patterns using * as a wildcard. 
        Between include and exclude, exclude wins always -->
        <excludes>
          <exclude>**/*.properties</exclude>
        </excludes>
      </resource>
    </resources>
    

    <!-- test phases resources used during the test phase and that is not deployed -->
    <testResources>
      <resource>
        <!-- Source Directory (Default: ${basedir}/src/test/resources) -->
        <directory>${basedir}/src/test/plexus</directory>
      </resource>
    </testResources>
  </build>
</project>

The pom Xml Resources can also use properties.

Management

Filtering

Maven Properties can be included in resources.

See https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-resources-plugin/examples/filter.html

Share between modules

See http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-remote-resources-plugin/

Documentation / Reference