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File: developer.md | Updated: 11/18/2025

Source: https://www.zaproxy.org/docs/developer/

ZAP Developer Guide

ZAP documentation for developers. This is currently being worked upon and more articles will be published soon.

**A Quick Start Guide to Building ZAP ** - learn to run ZAP from source using only the command line

**Building ZAP with Eclipse ** - How to build and run ZAP using the Eclipse IDE

**Building ZAP with IntelliJ IDEA ** - How to build and run ZAP using IntelliJ IDEA

**Verifying Your Changes ** - How to make sure your changes will pass the build checks and get merged quicker

**Creating a New Add-on in zap-extensions ** - A quick way to create a new add-on

**ZAP Session Database ** - Details about the Session Database

**Development Rules and Guidelines ** - To be followed when contributing ZAP code