I have a slight different version of the question that I made recently.
I have a Maven project under Netbeans 7.3, which doesn't have any build.xml
file to configure building options, while there is the pom.xml
that I use to import other libraries. Now, I have a text file (let's say textfile.txt
) stored in the project folder in Netbeans 7.3, e.g.
project folder
textfile.txt
src
package
package.subpackage
MyClass.java
When I compile I get a target
folder where the jar file is put in, e.g.
project folder
textfile.txt
target
classes
generated-sources
....etc
test-classes
MyProject.jar
src
package
package.subpackage
MyClass.java
How can I make the file textfile.txt being copied under target folder when I compile the Maven project?
A first way is to put the files into src/main/resources
that is the folder devoted to store the complied resources, i.e. the resources included into the jar file (e.g. images for the icons).
If you need to make the config file to be distributed with the jar, but separated by it, you must edit the pom.xml
file. A possible answer is the to add the following plugin between the <plugins>
and </plugins>
tags.
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.8</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<tasks>
<echo>Using env.test.properties</echo>
<copy file="textfile.txt" tofile="${basedir}/target/textfile.txt"/>
</tasks>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
Moreover, as you can read here you can also import all the resources from an "input" directory to an "output" directory inside target by using the dedicated plugin, e.g.:
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.0.1</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>copy-resources</id>
<!-- here the phase you need -->
<phase>validate</phase>
<goals>
<goal>copy-resources</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>${basedir}/target/output</outputDirectory>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>input</directory>
<filtering>true</filtering>
</resource>
</resources>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>