In Maven how to exclude resources from the generated jar?

Question

When I create an executable jar with dependencies (using this guide), all properties files are packaged into that jar too. How to stop it from happening? Thanks.

UPD

Answer 1

To exclude any file from a jar / target directory you can use the tag in your pom.xml file.

In the next example, all files with .properties extension will not be included:

    
        
            src/main/resources
            
                *.properties
            
            false