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

I fully support non-IDE development, especially when trying to learn something ;). Try starting with this simple build file (use the actual location of your JAX-WS RI install):

If you just run ant, you should see some output like the following:

wsimport:
 [wsimport] Consider using / so that wsimport won't do unnecessary compilation
 [wsimport] JAX-WS RI 2.2.1-b01-

Since it looks like you're using Java 6, pay attention to "Running on JDK6".