IntelliJ not seeing resources folder

Question

I created a new Project from scratch in IntelliJ by using a Maven Module. I didn't select any specific archetypes and I clicked on finish. The project gets created nicely and I have the java and resources folders under src/main as expected.

Unfortunately, my application does not find any property files in the resources folder because it looks in the project base folder instead.

I double checked that the resources folder is marked as 'source folder' in the Project Structure and I also tried to add the following to the pom.xml with no success:

<resources>
  <resource>
    <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
  </resource>
</resources>

I'm using Maven 2.2.1 and IntelliJ 11.1, Any thoughts??

Answer 1

There is a bug in Intellij 12 please go to Settings->Compiler and un-check "Use external build" check box - the idea behind it was that it was suppose to run faster with a compiler run in a separate process but in fact there is a bug and when using maven it does not copy resources.

Answer 2

Right Click the Directory -> "Mark Directory as" -> "Resource Root"

Answer 3

Well the answer is quite simple ..!
Just reference the file path in your source code as below:

src\\main\\resources\\FileName

& it should work as expected.

Answer 4

try

<resources>
  <resource>
    <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
    <includes>
      <include>**/*</include>
    </includes>
  </resource>
</resources>

or under settings -> compiler -> resource patterns, add the resource pattern (i.e ?*.prefs)

Answer 5

Had similar issue. Solution that worked for me:

ClassLoader classLoader = getClass().getClassLoader();
File file = new File(classLoader.getResource("path").getFile());