Question

I have java class files and property files in the same directory.

src/main/java/com/berlin/Test.class

src/main/java/com/berlin/Test.properties

With the maven jar I build and the maven target, I want these to appear in the same directory. but maven is placing the class files and property files in different places when I do ‘mvn package’.

.. Output:
jar -tvf file.jar:

Sat Jun 11 08:24:32 EDT 2011 main/java/com/berlin/Test.properties

I want:
Sat Jun 11 08:24:32 EDT 2011 com/berlin/Test.properties
Sat Jun 11 08:24:32 EDT 2011 com/berlin/Test.class

…

Part of my pom:

<build>
        <finalName>${project.artifactId}</finalName>
        <sourceDirectory>src</sourceDirectory>
        <testSourceDirectory>test</testSourceDirectory>
        <resources>
            <resource>
                <directory>src</directory>
                <includes>
                    <include>**</include>
                </includes>
                <excludes>
                    <exclude>**/*.java</exclude>
                </excludes>
            </resource>
        </resources>
<plugins>
            <plugin>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <source>${java.source.version}</source>
                    <target>${java.target.version}</target>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>           
            <plugin>
                <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <skipTests>true</skipTests>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>            
        </plugins>

Answer 1

For the Maven reasons, you should place properties file into src/main/resources, not in src/main/java directory (keeping the same subfolder structure).

That being said, to get what you want you need to replace (in your pom.xml) src with src/main/java. Not tested, but if you have problems please share.