Copy a resource file with maven located at the root of the project

Question

So, my pom.xml has the following:

    <build>
        <resources>
            <resource>
                <directory>.</directory>
                <excludes>
                    <exclude>.settings/</exclude>
                    <exclude>src/</exclude>
                    <exclude>target/</exclude>
                    <exclude>.classpath</exclude>
                    <exclude>.gitignore</exclude>
                    <exclude>.project</exclude>
                    <exclude>logging.log</exclude>
                    <exclude>mvn_cmd.bat</exclude>
                    <exclude>pom.xml</exclude>
                </excludes>
            </resource>
            <resource>
                <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
            </resource>
        </resources>
       ...

My goal is to copy a single file(e.g. config.properties) located at the root of my project and copy it into target/classes when I do a Maven > Update with Eclipse. So far the only way I found to fix this issue is to manually exclude all the files from from my ${basedir} directory.

I believe this can be done directly rather easily with the maven native command, but I need to get this working with m2eclipse as well.

I figured the best way to do this, would be a regex to exclude everything but my config.properties, but I don't known if maven has this kind of feature.

Answer 1

Try using includes instead of excludes, and note that the directory is the root of the project, like this:

<resources>
    <resource>
        <directory>${project.basedir}</directory>
        <includes>
            <include>config.properties</include>
        </includes>
    </resource>
    <resource>
        <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
    </resource>
<resources>