With maven - clean package, xml source files are not included in classpath

Question

So it seems that Maven package is setup by default to compile but not copy xml files in the java classpath, unless they\'re already there. In Eclipse, I created the simplest

Answer 1

By default maven does not include any files from "src/main/java" (${sourceDirectory} variable). You have two possibilities (choose one of them):

• put all your resource files (different than java files) to "src/main/resources" - recomended

• Add to your pom (example from gwt plugin):

  <build>
      <resources>
          <resource>
              <directory>src/main/java</directory>
              <includes>                      
                  <include>**/*.xml</include>
              </includes>
          </resource>
          <resource>
              <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
          </resource>
      </resources>
  </build>
  

Answer 2

The xml file shouldn't be placed in src/main/java but in src/main/resources instead. Maven will only compile java sources in src/main/java and will ignore everything else in there by default.

If you want to keep the XML in src/main/java, you can add it in the resource section of the POM. I would recommend against this, try to keep non-java files that you want in the artifact in src/main/resources.