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EdgeCase

Reputation: 4827

Can Intellij IDEA exist in a Netbeans Shop?

All my other colleagues use Netbeans, but I have an opportunity to use IDEA. Will we be able to work on the same Java EE projects together, or will we have issues with projects, checking in and out of SVN, etc?

We primarily develop EE and Spring MVC applications using Glassfish on our desktops, and commit to an SVN, although it is possible that I may have to load a coworker's entire projec.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 221

Answers (5)

Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen

Reputation: 75376

If you use Maven as your build tool, then yes (and Eclipse too).

All three have tooling allowing them to work well with Maven projects.

If you are using "plain" Netbeans projects I do not think that IDEA can work with them. If so, I suggest you lobby for the change. Maven is one of the investments that pay well of.

Upvotes: 1

Yegor Chumakov
Yegor Chumakov

Reputation: 450

I thought build tools like ant, maven or gradle are de-facto standart of java ee industry. Purpose your teammates to use it.

Upvotes: 0

Tomasz Nurkiewicz
Tomasz Nurkiewicz

Reputation: 340753

As long as you are using some standard, IDE-agnostic build tool like , I see no problems. I work on IntelliJ IDEA while my colleagues use Eclipse - no issues except different formatting rules or import order - all of this can be customized.

Subversion (or any other VCS) is the least of your problems. Even if the rest of your team pushes Netbeans project metadata files, IntelliJ will simply ignore them.

Upvotes: 5

Lai Xin Chu
Lai Xin Chu

Reputation: 2482

You will have issues with sharing projects, because the project folder and structure for Netbeans and IDEA is different.

However, you can attempt to share your src folders with one another and update your codes with one another through SVN, though I wouldn't advise it for compatibility reasons because you won't be able to properly share libraries and use other team functionality available in NetBeans.

So it won't be a good idea to use a different IDE so you don't waste time debugging compatibility.

Also, its useful to note that IDEA uses its own custom libraries for certain functionalities, and also build projects in a different way from NetBeans, so projects that appear to work on IDEA may not work on NetBeans and vice versa.

Bottom line, don't waste your time using a different IDE from the rest.

Upvotes: -2

Jeff Watkins
Jeff Watkins

Reputation: 6359

Why would you want to fly in the face of convention and be the only one on a different IDE? You'll waste time on issues that nobody else has, have formatting hiccups, struggle with pair programming etc.

As much as I like freedom of choice, the development environment within teams should be consistent.

Upvotes: 0

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