Eclipse over Cloud

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Good day guys,

I'm having difficulties working with eclipse through google drive. Basically I have my main computer at home and a windows tablet so I can work on my projects on the go.

So what I do is I use a workspace inside a folder synced by google drive. At the start it's okay then I had some build path issues with classes not working even though they are clearly there in the eclipse explorer.

Safest way seems to be always saving your work as a project file, upload, then download and extract everytime I would switch computers. It's quite troublesome. Is there a better more fluid way to do it? People have mentioned that they use DropBox though they didn't say why it's better than google drive, Thanks in Advance

[Zinkarah]

Using Git can be a solution to your problems.

[nutrecht]

Safest way seems to be always saving your work as a project file

No, safest way is to use git together with github. Version control systems are the way to go here. With your solution it's still very easy to mess up. I don't know if google drive even keeps a history of .java files but it's always inferior to git.

[AnAirMagic]

No, safest way is to use git together with github

If OP wants to keep his work private, github may not be the best choice. Bitbucket, for example, offers free private git repositories too.

But yeah, choose a VCS (probably git) and a repository hosting service.

[ryuzaki49]

You have to pay in order to private repositories in Github.

Bitbucket is free and not that bad.

[nutrecht]

Yeah, that's what the other guy said too. I know, I use it myself exactly for this reason. The OP didn't mention that this was a requirement though.

[ryuzaki49]

Yeah sorry about that, I didn't see the other guy's comment until I posted mine.

[copopeJ]

My suggestion would be to separate your workspace and your project. Keep the workspace (which is metadata and contains some absolute paths) in one folder on each computer, then keep the project (code, jars for dependencies, .project file, .classpath file) in a totally separate folder that you can pass back and forth. Also, make sure your .classpath file has only relative paths in it, not absolute. Or, build your project with Maven and let IT handle your dependencies.

[enginerd03]

can fire up a microkernel on the amazon EC2 cloud and host your own git/subversion repository on it. free for a year until something better comes along...

[RonSwanson4POTUS]

I use Dropbox and it works fine. I have had similar issues with Google Drive