# Web development tools

The Web development tools enable you to create Web applications that range from simple static sites to dynamic Web applications that use the latest Web technologies.

The Web perspective contains a selection of views and editors that are customized to be most useful to a Web developer.

- The editors include standard source editors with content assist features. To extend these pages, you can include form elements, Java™ applets, embedded scripts, dynamic controls, and JavaServer Pages (JSP) tags.

- Web Deployment Descriptor Editor helps you define any of the deployment information that can exist in the Web application deployment descriptor included in a WAR file. Pages in this graphical editor provide controls to set numerous Web application parameters associated with servlets, filters, life-cycle listeners, mime mappings, parameters, references, security, and other general deployment settings. The Web deployment descriptor editor also enables you to configure WebSphere® Application Server-specific bindings and extensions.

Related concepts
The Web perspective
Web Deployment Descriptor Editor
Web archive (WAR) files
Dynamic Web projects and applications
Static Web projects
Web projects
Web page design
Web technologies

Related tasks
Creating a dynamic Web project
Creating a static Web project
Creating JavaServer Pages (JSP) files

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