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Steps to reproduce: 1)Rightclick on WEB-INF node of some web module and select "View WAR Content" popup menu - window with future war content will be shown. Notice, that status line value changed to "WAR file created". Valid status for this action should be "Viewing WAR Contents ..."(or similar). Looks like this status appears during creation internal web.war. But web.war is hidden from user, so status line should correspond real user's action(Viewing contents) Well reproduced on all platforms with S1S4.1 build 020905.
*** Issue 30877 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
In fact it really creates WAR file. There are some bad usages of code that sets status messages. Anyway the code will be dropped when new project support is in place.