title: Deploy additional files in Gradle Application Plugin
body: <p>I have a small Java/Gradle project.  I'm using the <a href="http://gradle.org/1.0-milestone-1/docs/userguide/application_plugin.html" rel="noreferrer">Application plugin</a> to create a zip distribution (using the distZip task).  Using the standard configuration I get the following directories in my zip file:</p>
  
  <p><b>/bin</b>  - The scripts to start the application go in here<br/>
  <b>/lib</b>  - Contains my project code in a JAR file and all dependency JAR files.</p>
  
  <p>The trouble is that I would like a third directory: <b>/conf</b> where I can put my configuration files (instead of having them packaged inside my application JAR file.</p>
  
  <p>I imagine that this is a pretty common requirement because things like log4j.xml and hibernate.properties would be better placed outside the JAR file.  I just can't figure out how I can customise the behavior of the Application plugin to do this however.</p>