eclipse - How do you handle different Java IDEs and svn?

Question

How do you ensure, that you can checkout the code into Eclipse or NetBeans and work there with it?

Edit: If you not checking in ide-related files, you have to reconfigure buildpath, includes and all this stuff, each time you checkout the project. I don't know, if ant (especially an ant buildfile which is created/exported from eclipse) will work with an other ide seamlessly.

Answer 1

We actually maintain a Netbeans and an Eclipse project for our code in SVN right now with no troubles at all. The Netbeans files don't step on the Eclipse files. We have our projects structured like this:

sample-project   
+ bin
+ launches  
+ lib  
+ logs
+ nbproject  
+ src  
  + java
.classpath
.project
build.xml

The biggest points seem to be:

• Prohibit any absolute paths in the project files for either IDE.
• Set the project files to output the class files to the same directory.
• svn:ignore the private directory in the .nbproject directory.
• svn:ignore the directory used for class file output from the IDEs and any other runtime generated directories like the logs directory above.
• Have people using both consistently so that differences get resolved quickly.
• Also maintain a build system independent of the IDEs such as cruisecontrol.
• Use UTF-8 and correct any encoding issues immediately.

We are developing on Fedora 9 32-bit and 64-bit, Vista, and WindowsXP and about half of the developers use one IDE or the other. A few use both and switch back and forth regularly.