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How does the IDEA Community Edition compare with Eclipse?
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IntelliJ and Eclipse are both Java development environments, and both IDEs have a lot of features in common. They are both very good at code completion, refactoring, and debugging. The critical difference between the two is that IntelliJ is more customizable and has better support for Maven and Gradle builds.
Performance However, Eclipse handles the large projects faster as compared to IntelliJ Idea because it indexes the entire project on start-up. But, when you are working on an existing project, IntelliJ Idea works faster and smoother as compared to Eclipse.
Yes, because these IDE store their project data and configuration in different files, so they don't step on each other: Eclipse stores its files in . project , . classpath , .
From the main menu, select File | Export | Project to Eclipse…. The Export to Eclipse dialog displays the list of modules that have not been converted and switched to use the Eclipse format yet (the modules that have the IntelliJ IDEA module format .
IDEA is a far better IDE than Eclipse (general opinion by people that use IDEA).
On a feature point of view, everything that IDEA CE can also been done by Eclipse. However, IDEA is a commercial product, which limits its adoption. Thanks to the Community Edition, you can test this IDE for free, in order to develop JavaSE applications (or Scala or Groovy). For an enterprise, this is quite limited, as you will not be able to develop J2EE applications.
My conclusion is that IDEA CE is only a tool that allows you to test and understand the philosophy of this IDE. If you are convinced by IDEA, then you will really have to choose between the Ultimate Edition, which will let develop any kind of applications, or stay with Eclipse.
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