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When you build a web app project, a WAR is built, though the output window ant script log says "Building jar:" Should be changed to "Building WAR:"
This message is printed from the Ant's jar task that we are using to create the .war file. It cannot be fixed easilly. I think it is more appropriate to use jar task since we simply package our 'staging directory'. The war task is more complicated (deals with building the war file structure directly from files located in various folders) and is not needed here.