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• 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

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

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