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If I'm working on a web service or on a portlet application, I typically work with two web modules, one which provides the service and one which invokes it. Almost all the time when I work on the module with the portlet/web service, I want to deploy it but not execute it - it's the other module I want to execute. I don't want the IDE to mess with my browser in this case because that means I'll need to hit the back button before I execute. So I need a deploy action which causes the module to be deployed and nothing else.
Fixed in 4.1 (Deploy Project action).