How to place folder/jar in Maven META-INF root

Question

I am working on a implementation that requires UnlimitedJCEPolicyJDK8 for SAP hana cloud platform. The documentation tells me that i need to place it under the following structure:

WAR file: META-inf - ext_security - jre8

The problem is when i include the jars it goes to WEB-INF/classes and thats not where the server is looking. As seen in the picture.

Technical details:

tomcat 8: v3.2 runtime JRE 1.8 Maven build: using webapp archatype With facades to support servlets. IDE: eclipse

Tried the following:

1. add files using eclipse web deployment assembly (for what ever the reason it does not seems to work with maven and yes i use .m2 and WTP plugin)
2. Adding files trough maven dependency and tried copy to output folder.
3. i open WAR file moved files manually to correct folder and re-zipped and verified that if its in correct folder the update to server is working fine.

i really hope you can help me.

kind regards,

UPDATE: as requested by khmarbaise the pom file. And i created web-inf folder by myself in the hope it would be placed in root.

 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>hcp</groupId> <artifactId>edi.web</artifactId> <packaging>war</packaging> <version>0.0.2-SNAPSHOT</version> <name>edi.web Maven Webapp</name> <url>http://maven.apache.org</url> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>junit</groupId> <artifactId>junit</artifactId> <version>3.8.1</version> <scope>test</scope> </dependency> <!-- tried classpath but it did not seem to do annything Below dependency is from local .m2 repository--> <dependency> <groupId>hcp</groupId> <artifactId>jre8security</artifactId> <version>1.0.0</version> <optional>true</optional> <!-- goes in manifest classpath, but not included in WEB-INF/lib --> </dependency> </dependencies> <build> <pluginManagement> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.6</version> <configuration> <archive> <manifest> <addClasspath>true</addClasspath> </manifest> </archive> </configuration> </plugin> </plugins> </pluginManagement> </build> </project>

Solution provided by pace:

create a source folder under the following name: src/main/webapp/META-INF

Answer 1

The maven-war-plugin's war goal has a configuration option webappDirectory . It defaults to src/main/webapp. Anything in there will be placed in the root of the war. So you could create a directory:

src/main/webapp/META-INF

and drop in whatever files you want there. I don't much about the web tools plugin so not sure what approach would work there.