Hi all,

I am trying to convince my group here to start using Maven instead of
Ant. I am preparing a demonstration for them and in the process, I am
trying to create my own archetype. I've done it before but this time I
am stuck at something which I've no idea how to solve.

I want the project directory structure to be

- bin
  -- file1
  -- file2.sh
  -- file3.sh
- src
  -- main
    -- java
        -- file.java
+ site
+ test

So I've all that setup in archetype-resources folder and here is my
archetype.xml within META-INF directory

<archetype>
  <!-- this id tag should be same as the artifactId in the archetype
pom.xml-->
  <id>archetype_id</id>
  <sources>
     <source>src/main/java/App.java</source>
  </sources>
  <testSources>
    <source>src/test/java/AppTest.java</source>
  </testSources>
  <resources>
        <resource>bin/file1</resource>
        <resource>bin/file2.sh</resource>
        <resource>bin/file3.sh</resource>
  </resources>
</archetype>

The amount of problems I am encountering with something simple as this,
I've a feeling that this resources folder is supposed to do something
other then what I am trying to do.

Q1- How do I include the bin folder where I want it?

Main problem I am encountering is I haven't been able to figure out how
to include the entire directory and its files without specifying each
file the way I've shown above and ** doesn't work and neither does
specifying a directory and include tag

ANOTHER weird problem is that when Maven encounters that file2.sh, it
for some reason tries to open it and parse it because I get an exception
like this.... Parser Eception:
archetype-resources/bin/file2.sh:org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.Pars
eException: Encountered .....

Q2- Why is Maven trying to parse my shell script?

I would appreciate any help you can provide, if I am unable to prove to
my group how useful Maven is (this is the only snag left), I am afraid
we'll keep using ANT

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