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The Deploy action is used quite often during development, there should be a keyboard shortcut for it. Same for other Java EE project types probably.
This old bug may not be relevant anymore. If you can still reproduce it in 8.2 development builds please reopen this issue. Thanks for your cooperation, NetBeans IDE 8.2 Release Boss