JBoss Developer Studio offers an environment geared for developing, testing and deploying applications that use the JBoss Web Framework Kit frameworks, archetypes, quickstarts and examples.

Maven configuration for using the JBoss Web Framework Kit frameworks, JBoss Stacks and archetypes can be managed from within JBoss Developer Studio using JBoss Maven Integration and maven projects developed with the IDE Maven tools. Editors and palettes provide content assist and quick fixes for projects developed with the JBoss Web Framework Kit frameworks.

A number of the JBoss Web Framework Kit archetypes are available in JBoss Central under Start from scratch and from File→New→Project. The New Project wizards use the specified archetype to generate a new project, additionally enabling customization of the project name, package, location and other project parameters. Note that the available archetype types and versions vary with releases of JBoss Developer Studio and JBoss Web Framework Kit; available archetypes have included jboss-html5-mobile-archetype (HTML5 Project), richfaces-archetype-kitchensink (RichFaces Project) and jboss-spring-mvc-archetype (Spring MVC Project).

A number of the JBoss Web Framework Kit quickstarts are available in JBoss Central under Start from a sample. Alternatively, you can import the JBoss Web Framework Kit quickstarts and examples into your IDE workspace using the IDE import wizards. The online TicketMonster tutorial can also be accessed from JBoss Central under Tutorial.

Furthermore, JBoss Developer Studio provides tooling for deploying applications to and managing JBoss Web Framework Kit certified versions of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and Red Hat OpenShift.