Merge pull request #287 from l-cortese/master

log4j.xml relocated and excluded from JAR

dao/pom.xml

@@ -21,4 +21,49 @@
       <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
+
+  <build>
+
+    <!-- 
+    log4j.xml file will be copied both in ${project.build.outputDirectory} 
+    and ${project.build.directory}. Thanks to Sean Patrick Floyd 
+    (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5637532/maven-how-to-place-resource-file-together-with-jar) 
+    -->
+      
+    <resources>
+      <resource> <!-- regular processing for every resource file -->
+        <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
+      </resource>
+      <resource> <!-- processing with a different output directory for log4j.xml -->
+        <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
+        <includes>
+          <include>log4j.xml</include>
+        </includes>
+        <targetPath>..</targetPath> <!-- relative to target/classes i.e. ${project.build.directory} -->
+      </resource>
+    </resources>
+
+    <plugins>
+
+      <!-- 
+      This will exclude log4j.xml file from generated JAR 
+      -->
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>2.6</version>
+        <configuration>
+          <excludes>
+            <exclude>log4j.xml</exclude>
+          </excludes>
+          <archive>
+            <manifest>
+              <addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
+            </manifest>
+          </archive>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
 </project>