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

To get past this error we need to use Tools->Options, click Miscellaneous, and in the Ant tab use Add Jar/ZIP to locate and add the libraries webservices-tools.jar and webservices-rt.jar in the directory