Sharing Code between eclipse and intellij

Question

I work with a partner in java programming, I use intellij and he uses Eclipse. Is there a way that we can somehow mutually share our code with each other so we could work on the same code each in our own time?

Thanks

Answer 1

There is that possibility using GIT or another Code repository. Look at https://github.com/ or https://bitbucket.org/. There is also very helpfull article. To be also independant you can simply integrate your code with Maven, both incellij and eclipse can import project based only on pom.xml file created in maven setup.

Answer 2

In this your should use repository when there are more than one programmer on a single project whether you are using even same IDE. SVN will be one of the choices for repository

Answer 3

Given that you guys need to implement version control, one important aspect of co-operating together is to keep your codebase IDE-agnostic.

Thankfully, with java and maven there is an easy way to do this.

Firstly, commit to building your project with a build tool such as maven. Therefore, using this example, the pom.xml is the master configuration file for your project.

In contrast, your "project" files (either your .idea folder for intellij or your .project, .classpath and related files for eclipse) should not be checked into version control at all.

You can then add "ignores" to your VCS so that IDE-specific configuration files are not checked in - this way you won't interfere with each other with IDE-specific things.

Then, it is relatively easy for both of you to share a maven (pom.xml) based project with each other, and to configure your IDE independently from each other (i.e.: locally).