Currently {@value} can only be used in the doc comment of its own field,
to display the value.  It would be useful to be able to use it anywhere.
I am looking for a way to customize a series of Javadoc comments. Example:

/**
 * Names the property file.
 */
public static final String NAME_OF_PROPERTY_FILE = "db2.properties";

/**
 * This method reads the properties out of {@value NAME_OF_PROPERTY_FILE}
 */
 public void readProperties() {
 ...
 }

/**
 * This method writes the properties into {@value NAME_OF_PROPERTY_FILE}
 */
 public void writeProperties() {
 ...
 }

So if I need to change the value of the constant to
"cloudscape.properties" I wouldn't have to redo all the Javadoc
comments. (I came to this while doing a lot of Search/Replace)!

N/A

Sounds useful.
  xxxxx@xxxxx   2002-09-26

Close out as a duplicate of:
4764045: javadoc inline tag {@value} should be available everywhere
  xxxxx@xxxxx   2002-12-03