Maven EAR plugin: Adding generated resources

Question

In a custom Maven plugin, I add a file as resource by using the addResource of MavenProject.

This works well for JAR projects, but for EARs, I see that the relevant file is copied to target/classes and then ignored. It is not present in the EAR.

There is an earSourceDirectory property which I can probably use to "trick" Maven by setting it to target/classes but it seems like the wrong way.

How can I handle generated resources that should be packed into an EAR?

Answer 1

The Maven EAR plugin completely disregard all of the "resources" directories that can be set up for a given artifact. Instead, as you mentioned, it solely relies on the directory referenced by the earSourceDirectory property, src/main/application being the default value. (see https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-ear-plugin/ear-mojo.html#earSourceDirectory)

Therefore, you have two choices: either change that property value to point to target/classes as you proposed, or generate your files (as we did for one project) under src/main/application and then they will automatically be picked up by maven-ear-plugin.