I'm currently working on an existing project which has a pom.xml file with the following:

```xml
<resources>
    <resource>
        <filtering>false</filtering>
        <directory>src</directory>
        <includes>
            <include>**/*.properties</include>
        </includes>
    </resource>
</resources>

```

I have in the base path a directory called properties which contains properties files. I want to copy when packaging all the properties files contains under properties/ in my src directory (otherwise the program will crash due to missing configuration files).

So my question is: 

How can i, with Maven include resource files that are not located under src directory?

I try this one but it doesn't seem to work:

```xml
<resources>
    <resource>
        <filtering>false</filtering>
        <directory>src</directory>
        <includes>
            <include>**/*.properties</include>
            <include>../properties/**</include>
        </includes>
    </resource>
</resources>

```

Thank's for your help.