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João Matos
João Matos

Reputation: 6950

Use Intellij and netbeans at the same time in the same workspace

I was provided with a Ubuntu virtual box that has netbeans installed whereas locally I have Intellij. My Java workspace is shared between guest and host, therefore I was wondering if there will be any kind of conflict by running Intellij and Netbeans at the same time in such conditions.

Thank you for your help.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 573

Answers (3)

JUAN CALVOPINA M
JUAN CALVOPINA M

Reputation: 3955

This don't cause conflicts because each IDE adds a set of configuration files per project, for example: netbeans generates the nbproject folder, where is the project configuration for that IDE, while intellij generates a projectName.iml file and the .idea folder where is the configuration for the project.

If you use a version control tool as git, svn, mercurial, is recommended that you synchronize your project in each environment (guest and host) with your repository and do not share the workspace between them.

Upvotes: 1

phoenixSid
phoenixSid

Reputation: 477

There should not be any conflict as long as you have read/write permissions on both the OSs. However, to track the changes to code in a better way, use a version control system like subversion.

Also, do not copy the resources to your workspaces. Instead check out the code directly to your workspace.

Upvotes: 1

Aakash Verma
Aakash Verma

Reputation: 3994

I am not sure how the guest-and-host-OSes condition would play into this but I am pretty sure otherwise that the workspace can be shared by both of them especially when they are not working on the same project. Even if they are, it'd be you who'd be getting confused as files would get updated on both IDEs as the other one makes any changes.

Upvotes: 1

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