Resources

This plugin provides support for including resources in ClassPath. These resources are stored in other source directories than the compilation source directory compile.sources.directory (default to java/).

Declaration

  <plugin name="resources">
    <attribute name="resources.directories" value="conf"/>
  </plugin>

Usage

When the plugin is declared, the files available in the list of resources.directories for a module are copied into classes/ when compile.module is invoked. The exclusion filter compile.resources.excludes is applied. Of course, files are included in jar files according to the execution unit filters.

When a module resource directory does not exist, it is ignored without any warning.

Target

• resources.copy.module copies the resources files for a given module. This target is automatically invoked after the target compile (hook post.compile.[module]).

Attributes

Global

• resources.directories is the list (comma separated) of optional directories to consider as resources in a module.

Known issue

The Eclipse plugin manages the directories declared in resources.directories as source directories. But the directory is declared in .project only if it exists when the project configuration is done. If you add a new resource directory in a module, you have to force a new project configuration with ant configure and to refresh concerned Eclipse projects.