Customizing Package Contents - dleskov/excelsior-jet-maven-plugin GitHub Wiki

By default, the final package contains just the resulting executable and the necessary Excelsior JET Runtime files. However, you may want the plugin to add other files to it: README, license, media, help files, third-party native libraries, and so on. For that, add the following configuration parameter:

<packageFilesDir>extra-package-files-directory</packageFilesDir>

referencing a directory with all such extra files that you need added to the package. The contents of the directory will be copied recursively to the final package.

By default, the plugin assumes that the extra package files reside in the src/main/jetresources/packagefiles subdirectory of your project, but you may dynamically generate the contents of that directory by means of other Maven plugins such as maven-resources-plugin.

If you only need to add a few extra files or folders to the package, you may find it more convenient to specify them directly rather than prepare a <packageFilesDir> directory. You can do that using the <packageFiles> configuration section:

<packageFiles>
    <packageFile>
        <path></path>
        <type></type>
        <packagePath></packagePath>
    </packageFile>
    <packageFile>
        <path></path>
        <type></type>
        <packagePath></packagePath>
    </packageFile>
</packageFiles>

where <path> is the pathname of the file or folder on the host system, <type> is either file or folder (omit this parameter if you do not want Excelsior JET to check that <path> indeed points to a file or folder during packaging), and <packagePath> is its desired location within the package (root folder if that parameter is omitted).