QUESTION
In a Spring Boot Java application built with Maven using the spring-boot-maven-plugin with WAR packaging through Eclipse IDE with M2 with the goal as clean package, I would like to know if there is a command which would allow me to copy the resource folders (css, images, etc) which currently end up in mywar.war/WEB-INF/classes/static/ into the root directory mywar.war, so that I have mywar.war/images/, etc?
I see that with other plugins, there is something like a targetPath, but I can't find anything like that in the documentation for spring-boot-maven-plugin.
EXAMPLE POM
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>1.5.21.RELEASE</version>
<relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>
<groupId>com.myapp</groupId>
<artifactId>MyApp</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
<name>${project.artifactId}</name>
<description>My Application</description>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
<java.version>1.8</java.version>
<maven.test.skip>true</maven.test.skip>
<tomcat.version>7.0.78</tomcat.version>
<servlet-api.version>3.0.1</servlet-api.version>
<thymeleaf.version>3.0.3.RELEASE</thymeleaf.version>
<thymeleaf-layout-dialect.version>2.2.1</thymeleaf-layout-dialect.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-logging</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.session</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-session</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>test</groupId>
<artifactId>x</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<scope>system</scope>
<systemPath>${basedir}/MyJar.jar</systemPath>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-security</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-thymeleaf</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.thymeleaf.extras</groupId>
<artifactId>thymeleaf-extras-springsecurity5</artifactId>
<version>3.0.4.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>nz.net.ultraq.thymeleaf</groupId>
<artifactId>thymeleaf-layout-dialect</artifactId>
<version>2.3.0</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<finalName>${project.artifactId}</finalName>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
