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

Well, apparently a link to a website with the solution to this issue is unacceptable, so I'll paste the answer here:

The issue is due to the relevant jaxws jar not being in the class path see the pathelement node above. Adding the jar to the classpath resolves the issue.