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Can't add resources to jar in maven

This is my problem: I have a Maven project that is using a Swing library and it is a GUI app which I want to include a resources (images and one config.properties file) in my jar file.
Here is my pom.xml code:
<build>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>${basedir}/resource</directory>
<includes>
<include>**/*.png</include>
</includes>
<excludes>
<exclude>**/*.java</exclude>
</excludes>
</resource>
<resource>
<directory>${basedir}/config</directory>
<includes>
<include>config.properties</include>
</includes>
<excludes>
<exclude>**/*.java</exclude>
</excludes>
</resource>
<resource>
<directory>.settings</directory>
<excludes>
<exclude>**/*.java</exclude>
</excludes>
</resource>
</resources>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4</version>
<configuration>
<archive>
<manifest>
<addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
<mainClass>bis.debug.mode.ui.MainBISDebugMode</mainClass>
</manifest>
</archive>
<source>1.8</source>
<target>1.8</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
and here is my structure to my project:
I included directories as it seen in the pom.xml and the files in it and still doesn't included in jar file and it doesn't see images on the GUI app. When I run the program as Java application everything is fine.
Is it possible to be something wrong in my code? How I can fix the problem?

You need only to put your config file in src/main/resources and no need to add resources in pom.xml because src/main/resources is the maven's default resources folder

Spring BOOT resources

I have a maven project with spring boot, the project is packaged in a jar file. I want to access the txt file or xml file int the folder src/main/resources/. How can I achieve this? I've tried code like this: URL url = ClassLoader.getSystemResource("...");, but it does not work for me.
I have added the resources in the pom.xml file :
<build>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/resources</directory>
<includes>
<include>**/*.properties</include>
<include>**/*.xml</include>
<include>**/*.bin</include>
<include>**/*.tagger</include>
<include>**/*.txt</include>
</includes>
<filtering>false</filtering>
</resource>
</resources>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>

You don't need any resources configuration in pom.xml, I am doing it in this way.
URL url = this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResource("file_name_goes_here.txt");
String fileContent = IOUtils.toString(url);
Note that I have used org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils for getting the file contents.
This is what I have in <build>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>

Maven project src/main/resources/myfolder not being created on deployment

I have this set, and everything working fine on a Windows box during tests, Deployment to unix box for testing, the folder is missing and is not created :
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3</version>
<configuration>
<includeEmptyDirs>true</includeEmptyDirs>
<!-- specify UTF-8, ISO-8859-1 or any other file encoding -->
<encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
</configuration>
</plugin>
Its location is conventional here:
src/main/resources/myfolder
It's deployed as a war, and the directory is not created in WEB-INF/classes.
The rest of my pom looks like this:
<build>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/resources</directory>
<filtering>true</filtering>
</resource>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/resources/myfolder</directory>
</resource>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/webapp/WEB-INF</directory>
<filtering>true</filtering>
</resource>
</resources>

Facing issue while executing OSGi bundle it throws “/hibernate.cfg.xml not found”

Facing issue “/hibernate.cfg.xml not found” while executing OSGi bundle.
I have created a OSGi bundle through Apache felix bundle plugin, in my bundle I am connecting database through hibernate. When I execute my bundle in OSGi container it throws error. I have added all hibernate related xml files (like hibernate.cfg.xml) through resources tag in POM.xml file in the root folder of the bundle.
Error is
SessionFactory creation failed:org.hibernate.HibernateException: /hibernate.cfg.xml not found
This may be minor issue but I could not figure it out, please help me to resolve the issue
This is my POM.xml file
……… …….................
..................................................
<build>
<sourceDirectory>D:\WSNew\HCB-VCDPlugin100\src</sourceDirectory>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-bundle-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3.5</version>
<extensions>true</extensions>
<configuration>
<excludeDependencies>*;scope=provided|runtime</excludeDependencies>
<instructions>
<Embed-Dependency>*;scope=compile|runtime</Embed-Dependency>
<Embed-Directory>OSGI-INF/lib</Embed-Directory>
<Embed-Transitive>true</Embed-Transitive>
<!-- Export-Package>${project.exports}</Export-Package> -->
<!--<_exportcontents>${project.exports}</_exportcontents> -->
<Import-Package>org.osgi.framework, ,org.apache.log4j,org.hibernate,org.hibernate.cfg,org.hibernate.transform,org.quartz,org.quartz.impl,javax.xml.transform,org.w3c.dom,org.xml.sax,javax.xml.parsers,!*</Import-Package>
<Bundle-Activator>com.abclcorp.hcb.vddservice.impl.Activator</Bundle-Activator>
<!-- <Private-Package>org.foo.myproject.*</Private-Package> -->
<_exportcontents>*</_exportcontents>
</instructions>
<archive>
<addMavenDescriptor>false</addMavenDescriptor>
</archive>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>resources/configuration</directory>
<includes>
<include>CronScheduler.xml</include>
</includes>
</resource>
<resource>
<directory>resources/log4j</directory>
<includes>
<include>log4j.properties</include>
</includes>
</resource>
<resource>
<directory>resources/logs</directory>
<includes>
<include>CronScheduler.log</include>
</includes>
</resource>
<resource>
<directory>src</directory>
<includes>
<include>*.xml</include>
</includes>
</resource>
</resources>
</build>

Filtering Maven files into WEB-INF

I am trying to add some filtering to the application context file, which resides in the WEB-INF directory.
I have the file which is to be filtered (xmlgateway-context.xml) in the folder /src/main/resources.
I have the properties files (config-e05.properties) in the folder src/main/filters
And I have the POM set up as follows:
<!-- environment profiles -->
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>e04</id>
<properties>
<targetenv>e04</targetenv>
</properties>
</profile>
<profile>
<id>e05</id>
<properties>
<targetenv>e05</targetenv>
</properties>
</profile>
</profiles>
<!-- build settings (filtering) -->
<build>
<filters>
<filter>src/main/filters/config-${targetenv}.properties</filter>
</filters>
<resources>
<resource>
<targetPath>WEB-INF</targetPath>
<filtering>true</filtering>
<directory>src/main/resources</directory>
</resource>
</resources>
</build>
This will mvn install correctly, but when I open the output war file, I was expecting the file xmlgateway-context.xml to be in the /WEB-INF directory, but it ends up in the folder /WEB-INF/classes/WEB-INF.
How can I get this file into the right place.
Alternatively, can I put the application context into a different location and have it referenced there.

<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.0.2</version>
<configuration>
<webResources>
<resource>
<directory>${basedir}/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF</directory>
<filtering>true</filtering>
<targetPath>WEB-INF</targetPath>
<includes>
<include>**/xmlgateway-context.xml</include>
</includes>
</resource>
</webResources>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
Add the above to your pom.xml.
EDIT: Just to explain what the above conf is doing. With this added, mvn is going to filter files under src/main/webapp/WEB-INF and in particular filter the included files xmlgateway-context.xml and after filtering it is going to push the files in WEB-INF folder (thats what the target tag is saying).
Update if something is not clear.

you should configure filtering via the maven war plugin: checkout these examples.

With filteringDeploymentDescriptors set to true
<build>
<finalName>web-project-name</finalName>
<filters>
<filter>src/main/resources/app.properties</filter>
</filters>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/resources</directory>
<filtering>true</filtering>
</resource>
</resources>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.1</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.8</source>
<target>1.8</target>
<compilerArguments>
<endorseddirs>${endorsed.dir}</endorseddirs>
</compilerArguments>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4</version>
<configuration>
<failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
<filteringDeploymentDescriptors>true</filteringDeploymentDescriptors>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>

Put the file xmlgateway-context.xml in src/main/webapp/WEB-INF and configure like this:
<build>
<filters>
<filter>src/main/filters/config-${targetenv}.properties</filter>
</filters>
<resources>
<resource>
<filtering>true</filtering>
<directory>src/main/webapp/WEB-INF</directory>
</resource>
</resources>
</build>