------ Specifying resource directories ------ Franz Allan See ------ July 2006 ------ ~~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one ~~ or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file ~~ distributed with this work for additional information ~~ regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file ~~ to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the ~~ "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance ~~ with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at ~~ ~~ http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 ~~ ~~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, ~~ software distributed under the License is distributed on an ~~ "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY ~~ KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the ~~ specific language governing permissions and limitations ~~ under the License. ~~ NOTE: For help with the syntax of this file, see: ~~ http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-apt-format.html Specifying resource directories By default, maven will look for your project's resources under src/main/resources +-----+ Project |-- pom.xml `-- src `-- main `-- resources +-----+ However, all your resources may not be in src/main/resources. Thus, you'd have to specify those directories by adding the following to your pom. +-----+ [...] [...] [your folder here] [...] [...] +-----+ So if your resources resides in my-resources +-----+ Project |-- pom.xml `-- src `-- my-resources +-----+ you can specify that director by doing the following +-----+ [...] src/my-resources [...] +-----+ Furthermore, you can have several directories by adding resource tags +-----+ [...] resource1 resource2 resource3 [...] +-----+