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

Another possibility is to use the Maven Shade Plugin, e.g. to exclude a logging properties file used only locally in your IDE:

    org.apache.maven.plugins
    maven-shade-plugin
    ${maven-shade-plugin-version}
    
        
            package
            
                shade
            
            
                
                    
                        *:*
                        
                            log4j2.xml
                        
                    
                
            
        
    

This will however exclude the files from every artifact, so it might not be feasible in every situation.