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Eclipse (Instructions are outdated: Most of our active developers/committers tend to use either IDEA or NetBeans.)
- IDE Integration - DSpace, Eclipse and Tomcat
- How to setup Eclipse, Tomcat, and DSpace for Development (Scott Phillips' blog)
- Creating and Applying Patches in Eclipse
Vagrant-DSpace Docker Compose - A great way to get started quickly with DSpace development! This spins up a local Virtual Machine (using Vagrant) and automatically installs DSpace & configures Git for you. It even (optionally) integrates with your favorite IDE, or you can develop using commanline tools.Docker scripts can be found in the source code
- Backend: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/blob/main/dspace/src/main/docker-compose/README.md
- Frontend: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/blob/main/docker/README.md
Any source editor
- Building DSpace From Source

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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

Testing DSpace Github Pull Requests (PR)

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