How to include a config file in the “META-INF/services” folder of a JAR using Maven

Question

I\'m working on a Java project in Eclipse, which is built using Maven. I\'m using some recycled code from an older project, and one of these classes looks for a file in the

Answer 1

Alternatively, if your project does not use a standard directory structure (or your simply wish to have alternate resource directories), you can specify resource directories manually the POM file.

For example, if your META-INF/services is located in a folder called resources which lies in the root of your project directory, could specify it as follows:

...
  
    ...
    
      
        resources
      
    
    ...
  
  ...

You can use this to specify several directories by adding multiple elements.