Maven - exclude folder from build

Question

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

Answer 1

It's so very simple and you not need add other plugin:

https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-resources-plugin/examples/include-exclude.html

        <build>
            <resources>
                <resource>
                    <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
                    <excludes>
                        <exclude>application.properties</exclude>
                    </excludes>
                </resource>
            </resources>
        </build>

Answer 2

Instead try:

<exclude>scripts/**</exclude>

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

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

Answer 3

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>

Answer 4

<profiles>
    <profile>
        <id>readBuild</id>
        <build>
             <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration >
                    <excludes>
                        <exclude>**/com/pyramid/controllers/EntitlementWriteController.java</exclude>
                        <exclude>**/com/pyramid/controllers/ProductWriteController.java</exclude>
                    </excludes>
                     <testExcludes>
                      <testExclude>**/com/pyramid/controllers/EntitlementWriteControllerTest.java</testExclude>
                       <testExclude>**/com/pyramid/controllers/ProductWriteControllerTest.java</testExclude>
                    </testExcludes>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
            <directory>yourDirectory</directory>
        </build>
    </profile>