war project resources copied to web-inf/classes

[Karthik V]

I have a war project in m2 and want to copy some resource files to target.
In my src/main/resources folder, I have some files, along with a web-inf
folder containing some more files. But maven always seems to copy it to
target/web-inf/classes and not target. How do I change this behavior?

I tried adding something like
    <resources>
        <directory>${basedir}/src/main/resources</directory>
        <targetPath>target</targetPath>
      </resource>
    </resources>


but it didnt help... the above copied the files to
target/web-inf/classes/target.