Hiding manifest entries with maven

Question

When building a jar file with maven, it will create a manifest file in META-INF/MANIFEST.MF. Its contents currently are:

Manifest-Version: 1.0                            


        

Answer 1

Set user.name variable to empty string.

mvn -Duser.name="" package

Or if you are using Eclipse add -Duser.name="" to VM arguments of Maven run configuration (Run -> Run As -> Maven build... -> JRE tab -> enter -Duser.name="" in VM arguments field).