Code Contribution Guidelines

• Code Contribution Guidelines - 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.

• IntelliJ IDEA
  • IDE Integration - DSpace and IDEA (covers IDEA + maven + ant + tomcat).
• NetBeans
  • IDE Integration - DSpace and NetBeans
• 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
• Any source editor
  • Building DSpace From Source

Also, if you are interested in using Git/Github for local DSpace development see this for hints/tips:

• Tracking your source code with Git

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