Can Eclipse and IntelliJ IDEA use the same workspace without conflict?

Question

I'm using both IDEs for some projects and I was thinking of using the same "workspace" folder with both IDEs. Is there any known problems for doing this? Conflicts between IDEs or something?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Each IntelliJ project saves its setting within the project folder. With Eclipse, there is one common folder in "workspace" folder contains infomation about list of projects in this workspace. It's safe to save using same "workspace" folder.

But the terminologies in 2 IDE are different, in Eclipse there are workspaces , under each workspace , there are multiple projects . But in IntelliJ there are projects and each project has multiple modules .

If your projects stand alone, IntelliJ project = Eclipse project. But if you have some projects relate to each other, IntelliJ project = Eclipse workspace , IntelliJ module = Eclipse project