Use a dependency’s resources?

After lots of searching I finally stumbled upon a solution.

My solution takes the core module and unpacks it with the Maven Dependency Plugin, making sure to exclude the META-INF folder and the org folder which is where the compiled classes are. The reason I’m excluding what I don’t want instead of explicitly stating what I do want is so new resources can be added easily without me having to update my POM all the time.

The reason I’m not using the assembly plugin or the remote resources plugin is because they use dedicated resource modules. I don’t think I should have to make a core module and a core-resources module, with the core-resources module only containing logback and hibernate configuration files + some other stuff.

Here is a copy of what I’m using to do this

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <!--Extract core's resources-->
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.2</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>unpack</id>
                        <phase>generate-resources</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>unpack-dependencies</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <includeGroupIds>${project.groupId}</includeGroupIds>
                            <includeArtifactIds>core</includeArtifactIds>
                            <excludeTransitive>true</excludeTransitive>
                            <overWrite>true</overWrite>
                            <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/core-resources</outputDirectory>
                            <excludes>org/**,META-INF/**,rebel.xml</excludes>
                            <overWriteReleases>true</overWriteReleases>
                            <overWriteSnapshots>true</overWriteSnapshots>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
        <!--New resource locations-->
        <resources>
            <resource>
                <filtering>false</filtering>
                <directory>${project.build.directory}/core-resources</directory>
            </resource>
            <resource>
                <filtering>false</filtering>
                <directory>${basedir}/src/main/resources</directory>
            </resource>
        </resources>
    </build>