WebService Client Generation Error with JDK8

Question

I need to consume a web service in my project. I use NetBeans so I right-clicked on my project and tried to add a new \"Web Service Client\". Last time I checked, this was t

Answer 1

A very simple portable solution would be, to place the following line of code somewhere in a crucial part of your code, a part of which you are sure that it will be run (for example right in the main method):

System.setProperty("javax.xml.accessExternalDTD", "all");

This sets the needed system property programmatically, without having to do tricky maven pom.xml changes (which for some reason didn't work for me).