java - What is the purpose for the resource folder in Maven?

Question

Using Eclipse that was being used prior on the project by another developer. Most things are flagged as red and broken. Seeing files in src/main/java/... and the same exact files over in java resources/src/main/java...

Just confused over what is what, what is temp, what to keep to trash or how to fix the project environment.

Any easy fix to this?

Answer 1

There's no standard for anything at the root level called resources.

src/main/resources is normally where you put non-Java artifacts that should be moved into the normal package hierarchy, like XML config files loaded as classpath resources.

It's impossible to help much beyond that, other than to say "check your Maven file to see if anything actually references those files", particularly if anything generates files to there, or moves them there as part of an assembly process, but again, that would be non-standard Maven usage.