Maven2 AAR Eclipse plugin not adding services.xml to aar - maven-2

Question

Maven gurus, please help a newbie here:
My POM looks like this:
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>org.pidac.webservices</groupId>
<artifactId>axis2test</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<name>Axis2-test</name>
<build>
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.axis2</groupId>
<artifactId>axis2-aar-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.6.2</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>axis2-aar:aar</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<fileSets>
<fileSet>
<directory>${project.build.directory}/aar</directory>
<outputDirectory>/</outputDirectory>
</fileSet>
<fileSet>
<directory>$(basedir)/src/main/webapp/META-INF</directory>
<outputDirectory>META-INF</outputDirectory>
</fileSet>
</fileSets>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>
</build>
</project>
My folder structure looks like this:
My Debug Configuration has the following list of goals:
clean install axis2-aar:aar
From Eclipse, when I run a Maven Build from the Debug As context menu, the comes up when right clicking on the project, I get the aar into my target folder as indicated by the output below:
DEBUG] Exploding aar...
[DEBUG] Assembling aar axis2test in C:\Users\nji\workspace\axis2test\target\aar
[INFO] Generating aar C:\Users\nji\workspace\axis2test\target\axis2test-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.aar
[INFO] Building jar: C:\Users\nji\workspace\axis2test\target\axis2test-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.aar
[DEBUG] adding directory META-INF/
[DEBUG] adding entry META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
[DEBUG] adding directory com/
[DEBUG] adding directory com/pidac/
[DEBUG] adding directory com/pidac/axis2test/
[DEBUG] adding directory com/pidac/axis2test/api/
[DEBUG] adding directory com/pidac/axis2test/lib/
[DEBUG] adding entry com/pidac/axis2test/api/Hello.class
[DEBUG] adding entry com/pidac/axis2test/api/Weather.class
[DEBUG] adding entry com/pidac/axis2test/lib/HelloImpl.class
[DEBUG] adding entry com/pidac/axis2test/lib/WeatherService.class
[DEBUG] adding directory META-INF/maven/
[DEBUG] adding directory META-INF/maven/org.pidac.webservices/
[DEBUG] adding directory META-INF/maven/org.pidac.webservices/axis2test/
[DEBUG] adding entry META-INF/maven/org.pidac.webservices/axis2test/pom.xml
[DEBUG] adding entry META-INF/maven/org.pidac.webservices/axis2test/pom.properties
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
However, when I manually explode this AAR using 7-Zip, services.xml is not found anywhere.
The docs here Maven2 AAR Plug-in Guide says
Location of the services.xml file. By default, it is assumed that the
file is already present in classesDirectory/META-INF and no special
processing is required
but when I look at the classesDirectory after the build is complete, there is no META-INF folder.
What am I missing?

Answer 1

Needed to try more things and read between the lines:
Documentation here Maven2 AAR Plug-in Guide needs clarification on servicesXmlFile configuration parameter for this plugin and did not help me. If you are lucky to get Intellisense when editing POM.xml within Eclipse, you will get a better description for this configuration parameter:
There should be three ways to fix this:
Create a folder META-INF under src/main/resources and add your services.xml.
Enter following configuration under settings of project in POM.
META-INF
false
${basedir}/src/main/webapp/META-INF
services.xml
Enter path to services.xml in configuration settings for plugin, like so:
org.apache.axis2
axis2-aar-maven-plugin
1.6.2
axis2-aar:aar
${baseDir}/src/main/webapp/META-INF
${project.build.directory}/aar
/
Probably caused by incorrect path, I could not get this alternative to work. Maybe someone can comment.