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I have experienced several issues of eclipse crashing with workspace configured. It would generally take lot of time and will simply display the splash screen. Initially I thought it is due to lack of memory(RAM), but I saw similar symptoms even with massive configuration(16GB Ram, Quad Core etc) After googling I found the actual cause of eclipse crashing, The solution is simple, delete specific .snap file from eclipse workspace location. For me deleting the following files worked, \.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.resources\.snap   and \.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.resources\.root\.markers.snap Eclipse uses .snap files for remembering workspace state during runtime. Deleting these files' does not effect any projects in the workspace, every thing for me just worked fine.

Wondering how to maintain copyright or disclaimer text on source files. Specially when you have a number of files in your project, and you probably want to add some sort of info text or say copyright text as header in each and every file. Recently I found a easy simple to use eclipse plugin  http://www.wdev91.com/update/  which can be used easily to add or even replace existing header information text from source files. Since adding the text in each file is manually is very error prone and takes lots of effort, this plugin is very useful. You can find more information here  http://www.wdev91.com/

Recently I have noticed that eclipse IDE on Fedora inserts the default system user name "root" in the @author attribute for java comments. I have found two ways to change the Default System User name to what ever you like, The First way is to The other one is just by  changing the associated templates in Window -> Preferences -> Java -> Editor -> Templates -> @author , and hard coding the author's name. The Other way is by editing the eclipse.ini file, For example , the following eclipse.ini file shows what I have done to set my name -showsplash org.eclipse.platform -framework plugins/org.eclipse.osgi_3.4.2.R34x_v20080826-1230.jar -vmargs -Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5 -Xms40m -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Duser.name="Siddhartha(Sidd)" Notice the  attribute Duser.name , that I have set to Siddhartha(Sidd),  after changing eclipse.ini we should restart eclipse so that changes can take effect. Now, when ever I want to a...