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Developer Guidelines and Tools

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Guidelines for developing DSpace and getting your code accepted.

Code Contribution Guidelines

ContributionGuidelines - Provides details on our Code Approval processes and our DSpace code conventions! Before you get started on your project, make sure you understand our Code Contribution Guidelines!

Developing Environments

You are free to use whatever developer environment works for you. Here are some guides for setting up and using particular environments.

Eclipse
- IDE Integration - DSpace, Eclipse and Tomcat
- How to setup Eclipse, Tomcat, and DSpace for Development (Scott Phillips' blog)
- Creating and Applying Patches in Eclipse
NetBeans
- IDE Integration - DSpace and NetBeans
IntelliJ IDEA
- IDE Integration - DSpace and IDEA (covers IDEA + maven + ant + tomcat).
Any source editor
- Building DSpace From Source

Useful tools

Luke - for work with Lucene indexes&queries, see Debug lucene query
Eclipse ResourceBundleEditor - for work with i18n Internationalization in JSPUI, see I18nSupport#Eclipse_Resource_Bundle_Editor

Other Resources

DSpace Developer Documentation by Richard Jones: covers parts of both 1.3.2 and 1.4.
How To Guides
System Docs for latest stable release

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