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

This calls exactly for the using the Maven JAR Plugin

For example, if you want to exclude everything under src/test/resources/ from the final jar, put this:

        
            
            
                org.apache.maven.plugins
                maven-jar-plugin
                2.3.1
                
                    
                        src/test/resources/**
                    
                
            

...

Files under src/test/resources/ will still be available on class-path, they just won't be in resulting JAR.