How to copy resource to src target directory with Maven?

Question

I'm currently working on an existing project which has a pom.xml file with the following:

<resources>
    <resource>
        <filtering>false</filtering>
        <directory>src</directory>
        <includes>
            <include>**/*.properties</include>
        </includes>
    </resource>
</resources>

I have in the base path a directory called properties which contains properties files. I want to copy when packaging all the properties files contains under properties/ in my src directory (otherwise the program will crash due to missing configuration files).

So my question is:

How can i, with Maven include resource files that are not located under src directory?

I try this one but it doesn't seem to work:

<resources>
    <resource>
        <filtering>false</filtering>
        <directory>src</directory>
        <includes>
            <include>**/*.properties</include>
            <include>../properties/**</include>
        </includes>
    </resource>
</resources>

Thank's for your help.

Answer 1

If your file structure is like this: Standard Directory Layout

Then you dont have to add the resources elemt. Maven copies by default all the files and folders that are located in your /src/main/resources folder to your build folder and locates them in the root of your compiled classpath files.
if you have for example a file called configuration.properties located in /src/main/resources/configuration.properties then when running mvn clean compile this file will be copied to your /target/classes/configuration.properties So if you remove that part the files will be located where u want them

<resource>
    <filtering>false</filtering>
    <directory>src</directory>
    <includes>
        <include>**/*.properties</include>
    </includes>
</resource>