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This presentation explains the new ways to add your local customizations to the DSpace 1.5 codebase:
How to customize your DSpace 1.5 and make overlays, April 4th 2008, presented by Tim Donohue at Open Repositories 2008

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