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Maybe the timestamp of HTML files should also be checked and then include the HTML files in the redeployment. This issue is a big problem for Wicket users (a growing subset of NetBeans users), who work with HTML and Java only and are confused about this behavior in NetBeans (https://nbwicketsupport.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=17).
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