Hi Brady, basically, if you can, use the overlays mechanism, which will ease forward-porting your changes to newer DSpace version.
If you can't, you're making an Addon. This can be a standalone module/webapp (maven project) or modifications to existing codebase which you distribute in form of a patch. Here are some resources you can look at: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/BuildCookbook http://pubs.or08.ecs.soton.ac.uk/135/ Regards, ~~helix84 Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_nov _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech

