How to add a file to a war with Maven

Question

I have developed a maven plugin that downloads the release notes from JIRA. It\'s bound by default to the \'generate-sources\' phase and creates a \'release.txt\' file in th

Answer 1

I think this can be done using this feature of that plugin:

Adding and Filtering External Web Resources: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-war-plugin/examples/adding-filtering-webresources.html

Which would allow you to generate your release.txt into a separate folder (not src) and have the plugin treat it as an extra resources folder.

Hope that helps.

 
  org.apache.maven.plugins 
  maven-war-plugin 
   
     
       
        ${project.build.directory} 
        WEB-INF 
         
          release.txt