Using the option within an assembly descriptor

[EJ Ciramella]

  Hello again list, I'm struggling to get this thing working.
 
I'm trying my hardest to not process files (for a war project) once to
the target directory then AGAIN into the final assembly location.
 
So I'm using mvn assembly:directory but I don't see any of the tokens
expanded for the files when inside the descriptor, I have something like
this:
 
    <fileSet>
       <directory>src/main/resources/java-properties</directory>
       <outputDirectory>somedir</outputDirectory>
       <useStrictFiltering>true</useStrictFiltering>
       <lineEnding>unix</lineEnding>
       <filtered>true</filtered>
       <includes>
        <include>hibernate.properties</include>
       </includes>
    </fileSet>
 
The resulting hibernate.properties file still has ${stuff} type
properties left in there.
 
Any suggestions?