How to filter out files from your src main webapp directory so they don't end up in your .war file

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Here's an example of how to this.

• Create a simple web application using maven archetype:

• mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=org.codehaus.groovy.maven.archetypes -DgroupId=com.foo -DartifactId=example -Dpackage=com.lackey

• choose option 18 (simple web app -- this will generate a simple web app project).

• cd example

• create a file src/main/webapp/server.properties

• run: mvn package

• notice you have a file target/example/server.properties -- this means server.properties will end up in your .war.

• now change your pom file to include the following directives in the <build> block:

  <build>
    <finalName>findFiles</finalName>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
          <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
          <version>2.1-beta-1</version>
          <configuration>
              <warSourceExcludes>**/*.jsp</warSourceExcludes>
          </configuration>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>

• run: mvn package (again)

notice the file target/example/server.properties is no longer present. You can check the .war as well, it won't be there, which is what you want in this case.

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