Using both Eclipse and NetBeans on the same project

Question

Eclipse is a really great editor, which I prefer to use, but the GUI design tools for Eclipse are lacking. On the other hand, NetBeans works really well for GUI design.

Answer 1

Define your project dependencies with Maven, and use it to generate project configuration files for both Netbeans and Eclipse.

Try to keep separate classes directories for Eclipse and Netbeans, since Eclipse doesn't like it when external tools touch its classes.