title: Eclipse .classpath exclusion pattern
body: <p>I have seen this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;classpathentry excluding="**" kind="src" output="target/classes" path="src/main/resources"/&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In my Eclipse .classpath file many times when creating a new Maven project, but I can not seem to figure out - what in the heck does excluding="**" mean?</p>
  
  <p>EDIT: I guess what I am trying to get at here, is that though it seem like excluding="**" should exclude everything in src/main/resources, yet - it does not. When I create a test project and put in folders (for example: META-INF) they DO in fact show up in target/classes. Why? What is the point of the exclusion then?</p>
  
  <p>TIA</p>