Created attachment 104862 [details]
Test case. Extract and try and run "ant" from the commandline. If you then modify private.properties to point to your build.properties file, it will then build successfully.

When a new Web Application is created, along with a new web service, the METRO libraries are copied to the project directory (usually under ProjectName\lib\metro or similar). This enables the project to be built outside of NetBeans (indeed, in an environment that doesn't have NetBeans installed on it at all) via ant.

When a new Java Project is created, along with a new web service client, the JAXB libraries are copied to ProjectName\lib\JAX-WS-ENDORSED. However, the libraries that are needed to build the project via the wsimport task (the Metro libraries) are linked only by reference to the NetBeans installation directory as follows:

from jaxws-build.xml:

    <target name="wsimport-init" depends="init">
        <mkdir dir="${build.generated.sources.dir}/jax-ws"/>
        <taskdef name="wsimport" classname="com.sun.tools.ws.ant.WsImport">
            <classpath path="${libs.jaxws21.classpath}"/>
        </taskdef>
    </target>

${libs.jaxws21.classpath} is defined in build.properties and the location of build.properties is defined in \nbproject\private\private.properties. The value of this parameter points to (in my case):

libs.jaxws21.classpath=C:\\Program Files\\NetBeans 6.9\\ide\\modules\\ext\\jaxb\\jaxb-impl.jar;C:\\Program Files\\NetBeans 6.9\\ide\\modules\\ext\\jaxb\\jaxb-xjc.jar;C:\\Program Files\\NetBeans 6.9\\java\\modules\\ext\\jaxws22\\FastInfoset.jar;C:\\Program Files\\NetBeans 6.9\\java\\modules\\ext\\jaxws22\\gmbal-api-only.jar;C:\\Program Files\\NetBeans 6.9\\java\\modules\\ext\\jaxws22\\http.jar;C:\\Program Files\\NetBeans 6.9\\java\\modules\\ext\\jaxws22\\jaxws-rt.jar;C:\\Program Files\\NetBeans 6.9\\java\\modules\\ext\\jaxws22\\jaxws-tools.jar;C:\\Program Files\\NetBeans 6.9\\java\\modules\\ext\\jaxws22\\management-api.jar;C:\\Program Files\\NetBeans 6.9\\java\\modules\\ext\\jaxws22\\mimepull.jar;C:\\Program Files\\NetBeans 6.9\\java\\modules\\ext\\jaxws22\\policy.jar;C:\\Program Files\\NetBeans 6.9\\java\\modules\\ext\\jaxws22\\saaj-impl.jar;C:\\Program Files\\NetBeans 6.9\\java\\modules\\ext\\jaxws22\\stax-ex.jar;C:\\Program Files\\NetBeans 6.9\\java\\modules\\ext\\jaxws22\\streambuffer.jar;C:\\Program Files\\NetBeans 6.9\\java\\modules\\ext\\jaxws22\\woodstox.jar;C:\\Program Files\\NetBeans 6.9\\java\\modules\\ext\\jaxws22\\api\\jaxws-api.jar;C:\\Program Files\\NetBeans 6.9\\java\\modules\\ext\\jaxws22\\api\\jsr181-api.jar;C:\\Program Files\\NetBeans 6.9\\java\\modules\\ext\\jaxws22\\api\\jsr250-api.jar;C:\\Program Files\\NetBeans 6.9\\java\\modules\\ext\\jaxws22\\api\\saaj-api.jar;C:\\Program Files\\NetBeans 6.9\\ide\\modules\\ext\\jaxb\\activation.jar;C:\\Program Files\\NetBeans 6.9\\ide\\modules\\ext\\jaxb\\api\\jaxb-api.jar;C:\\Program Files\\NetBeans 6.9\\ide\\modules\\ext\\jaxb\\api\\jsr173_api.jar

Given:

* That the value of the user.properties.file parameter in nbproject\private\private.properties differs for each user; and
* That the above means that a NetBeans Java Project with a web service client reference but not a web service in it is unable to be built outside of the original developer's machine from the ant commandline.

I would propose that these libraries should be copied into the ProjectName\lib directory, in a similar way to the behaviour for projects containing Web Services.