Remote Pair Programming in IntelliJ

Is there a way to use IntelliJ when pair-programming? It would be nice to have the option in v7 and v8 but I would upgrade to v9 if needed.

The question is a 开发者_开发问答bit like this question, but for IntelliJ users instead.

And also similar to another question of mine here which relates to mixed environments.

A good alternative to VNC is screenhero. It's very lightweight, but unfortunately does not support Linux.

Floobits creates a pairing session at the IDE level. It supports many popular IDEs from IntelliJ, Eclipse, to emacs.

For simple working from home, I can start a vncserver session on my box at work, then start vncviewer to connect to that session, start up all my design tools (including IntelliJ). When I get to work, I connect to the corporate network and run a second instance of vncviewer. I'm not sure what the limits are, but I've had vncviewer running on both my laptop and my (work) desktop before, with the input from both keyboards and mice fighting it out. I've never done pair programming, but I thought the idea is two sets of eyes/fingers but on monitor/keyboard. Add skype and you may have all you need.

About nine years too late for OP, but others interested can try CodeTogether - available now for IntelliJ, Eclipse and VS Code. Participants join in a browser, but get a full IDE-like experience with IntelliSense, validation, reference searches, navigation, etc. The JetBrains Plugin registry link is here and here's a short video.

Full disclosure: I work for Genuitec, makers of CodeTogether.

There is an effort to bring the Saros Eclipse plugin to the IntelliJ platform:

www.saros-project.org

Saros for IntelliJ - the plan

There is an open request for this feature (opened back in 2005). You can vote there and maybe that would be implemented at some stage.

http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEABKL-708

Update: It seems that this request finally materialized in 2021 version.

This tool looks promising. It's called Floobits and here is a link to an IntelliJ Idea blog post about it. Let's you conference, share code, and even edit the same file at the same time.

Late 2020, Jetbrains revealed their own plugin for remote pair-programming. It's called Code With Me.

It is available as an experimental feature in IntelliJ IDEA 2020.2.1 and later and can be found in the plugin marketplace.

Be warned though as the plugin will be promoted to a paid service in the future. Only early access is free. (See blog post attached)

An excerpt from the help page:

You can start a session with one of the following basic scenarios:

• You can do pair-programming, in this case you share your IDE with a single participant and either use the Full sync mode, or follow each other and collaborate on different parts of code. Unlike classic pair-programming where developers share a single screen and a keyboard, you can work independently and achieve the goal faster.

• You can have a teacher-students scenario where you have many participants who follow you. Let's say you need to explain a problem and show your team members different parts of your project. You can achieve that with the Force Others to Follow You mode.

• You can do simultaneous multi editing of your code with other participants. In this case, participants can quickly change the code and even work on other files of the project at the same time. However, there is a limitation on how many participants can actively type together. The limit is 5, and if it's reached, IntelliJ IDEA will display a popup suggesting to wait. Additionally, it might slow down the performance.

More information on the plugin page, the getting started page and the blog post.

If you can switch to Eclipse you can try: http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/

Here you have some screenshots: http://wiki.eclipse.org/DocShare_Plugin

For idea, the most I can think of is: http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/webhelp/idetalk.html