How do I set ${user} in Eclipse to get the correct @author tag? [duplicate]

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I’m not sure if there’s a way in Eclipse itself. But from what I can find, ${user} uses the value of the user.name environment variable; therefore, you can pass -Duser.name=My Name in eclipse.ini to override it.

Or, if you prefer, you can modify the shortcut to point to:

C:/java/eclipse/eclipse.exe -vmargs -Duser.name="cleverUserNameToUseInSourceCode"

as shown in this blog entry.

@author ${user}

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