maven-war-plugin

I'm building a web application project using maven, and packaging is set to "war". I also use YUI compressor plugin to compress javascript codes in the webapp directory. I've set up the YUI compressor like this: <plugin> <groupId>net.alchim31.maven</groupId> <artifactId>yuicompressor-maven-plugin</artifactId> <version>1.3.0</version> <executions> <execution> <phase>process-resources</phase> <goals> <goal>compress</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> <configuration> <excludes> <exclude>**/ext-2.0/**/*.js</exclude> <exclude>**/lang/*.js</exclude> <exclude>**/javascripts/flot/*.js</exclude>

I tried this to exclude whole directory (${basedir}/src/main/webapp/webscripts) from my WAR file but it failed. What is wrong? this doesn't work: <configuration> <webResources> <resource> <directory>${basedir}/src/main/webapp/webscripts</directory> <excludes> <exclude>**/*.*</exclude> </excludes> </resource> </webResources> </configuration> this too: <configuration> <webResources> <resource> <directory>${basedir}/src/main/webapp</directory> <excludes> <exclude>**/webscripts</exclude> </excludes> </resource> </webResources> </configuration> Can anybody help? Both of your solutions wouldn't help