taskdef class com.sun.tools.ws.ant.WsImport cannot be found Following “The java web services tutorial”

Question

I saw the same issue in many different locations and even after a good portion of googling, I could not resolve it. What I am trying to do (the bigger picture) is to go through

Answer 1

You can fix the problem in Netbeans x.y as follows:

1. Go to Tools->Options->Java->Ant.
2. Click on "Add JAR/ZIP..." under the Classpath section
3. Navigate to "C:\Program Files\NetBeans x.y\enterprise\modules\ext\metro\"
4. Select all files.
5. Click OK, and try the import/regenerate again.

where x.y = 7.1, 7.2, 8.0 etc