Where in maven project's path should I put configuration files that are not considered resources

Question

I have a simple java maven project. One of my classes when executing needs to load an xml configuration file from the classpath. I don\'t want to package such xml file when

Answer 1

If your packaging is war, you can use the packagingExcudes configuration option of the maven-war-plugin:

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        maven-war-plugin
        3.2.2
        
          
          
            WEB-INF/classes/abc.properties
          
        
      
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Use commas to separate between multiple resources you want to exclude. Also, you can use wildcards and regex in your excluded paths. For regex, it's in the %regex[YOUR_REGEX_HERE] syntax. Check the documentation for more details.