Handling unconventional source directory for a web project in maven

Question

I\'ve inherited a web project (Servlets) which is currently build inside eclipse.

I want to add maven around it. But the project\'s source directory is not following

Answer 1

Just add this to your pom in the build section.

<sourceDirectory>${basedir}/src</sourceDirectory>

Here's the relevant section of the POM doc on configuring the directories.