including empty directories in a war build

[Frank Russo]

I'm creating a war file that will eventually be exploded into the tomcat
webapp directory. I have some shell script files that run behind the
scene's of my webapp. When the war is exploded, it needs to have created
a bin directory under the WEB-INF directory of the webapp. I haven't
been able to figure out to do this with Maven. I'm using 2.0.1. It seems
to only include directories that have files. 
 
Is there a way to explicitly say to create an empty directory? 
 
Thanks...
 
Frank Russo
Senior Developer
FX Alliance, LLC
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