How to build cross-IDE java GUI's using "interface builders"? <p>In a Java project with developers that use different IDEs, say Eclipse and IntelliJ, what's the best way of developing visual components using the tools offered by the IDEs ("<a href="http://eclipse.org/vep/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Visual Editor Project</a>" for Eclipse and "<a href="http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/gui_builder.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Swing GUI Designer</a>" for IntelliJ)?</p> <p>If a developer using Eclipse needs to make changes to a GUI written by another developer in IntelliJ (and vice versa) he will have quite a hard time and maybe even make the code incompatible with the original tool that built it.</p> <p>Is there a solution or do all developer just need to use the same tool?</p>