Currently (as far as I can tell) it's only possible to copy resource files to the compiler output directory using resource patterns. However, I often find myself needing to include files with no extension, usually for inclusion in the META-INF directory. For example, in Java 6, scripting engines are found using a file called javax.script.ScriptEngineFactory in the META-INF/services directory. As far as I can tell, the only way to include this in the output directory is to add the filename (or some wildcard-matched portion) as a resource pattern. This just feels clunky to me. It's also made worse by having to use a single textfield, where all of the *, ? and ; characters make things difficult to easily read. I'd like to have a list, similar to the "Exclude from Compile" list, in which individual files, or patterns, can be added. As an added bonus, having a button that shows you all of the current files that would be included would be handy, but that's a separate issue really.