Maven - exclude folder from build

Trying to exlcude a folder src/main/resources/scripts/ from my build but the following does not work:

<build>
    <resources>
        <resource>
            <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
            <excludes>
                <exclude>src/main/resources/scripts/</exclude>
            </excludes>
        </resource>
    </resources>

    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>3.1</version>
            <configuration>
                <excludes>
                    <exclude>src/main/resources/scripts/</exclude>
                </excludes>
                <source>1.7</source>
                <target>1.7</target>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

Any ideas?

Solution 1:

Instead try:

<exclude>scripts/**</exclude>

The exclude is based on directory, so your construction would exclude

src/main/resources/src/main/resources/scripts

Solution 2:

I had a similar problem and found the following issues:

• You may have a parent pom which already defines a configuration for the maven-compiler-plugin. For this, add combine.self="override" to the configuration tag. See Maven : Is it possible to override the configuration of a plugin already defined for a profile in a parent POM
• It seems the plugin ignores excludes if it needs the excluded classes for the compilation: make sure you are not referencing the excluded classes from other classes which will get compiled. For example, if you exclude Foo.java, but in Bar.java you import Foo; it will (try to) compile Foo.java to compile Bar.java.

For example:

<profiles>
    <profile>
        <id>myId</id>
        <build>
            <plugins>
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                    <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                    <configuration combine.self="override">
                        <excludes>
                            <exclude>**/some/full/directory/*</exclude>
                            <exclude>**/some/single/File.java</exclude>
                        </excludes>
                    </configuration>
                </plugin>
            </plugins>
        </build>
</profile>