Question about war file and excluding folder

[Ashish Kulkarni <as...@gmail.com>]

Hi
I have a file strutcure as below

WEB-INF-
              |
              ---classes
              |
              ---lib
              |
              ---configfiles--
                                 |
                                 ---system--
                                                |
                                                ---Test1--
                                                |            |
                                                |            --Test3
                                                |
                                                -- Test2

In my war files i want to exclude all the directories and files after
"system" ,
i.e. i want to add system, but not Test1, Test2, Test 3 and all the files
under it

in my war file i tried to do the following

  <war basedir="${webroot}" destfile ="my.war"
webxml="${webroot}/WEB-INF/web.xml" excludes="**/*.class, **/web.xml,
{webroot}/configfiles/system/" update="true"
manifest="${webroot}/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF" >
</war>

But it still does all the directories under system, i also tried to exclude
{webroot}/configfiles/system/**, and {webroot}/configfiles/system/**.** dut
it does not work

Any ideas

Ashish