How to create empty folders with maven archetype?

Question

There is an existing issue for this approach, located on Codehaus JIRA #ARCHETYPE-57, but all instructions listed in this ticket failed for me. Also the blog post of marekdec Ho

Answer 1

I solved this issue by adding the following configuration to the archetypes pom.xml build configuration.

Assuming your archetype-metadata.xml configuration file's filesets is as follows:

 src
  
   **/**
  

Add this to your pom.xml, not the one included with the archetype, the actual project pom.xml

  org.apache.maven.plugins
  maven-resources-plugin
  2.3
  
    true
  

The xml configuration line which does the magic is

true

The full configuration will look as follows

...

    
        
            
                org.apache.maven.plugins
                maven-resources-plugin
                2.3
                
                    true