An interesting thought, Tim. I had been running the client on the same machine
as the server. So, I tried browsers on a number (three) of other machines (none of which
have webservices-rt.jar installed) and the application works! However, I'm still getting
this NoClassDefFoundError when I use my browser on the same machine as the server.
So...I removed the webservices*.jar files from my jdk and the application works!
The class definition is apparently being satisfied by
com/sun/xml/internal/org/jvnet/staxex/XMLStreamReaderEx.class in rt.jar and
webservices-rt.jar was getting in the way.
I think I made a mistake installing the webservices*jar files into my jdk;
I was likely following some old Metro instructions which no longer apply for JavaSE6.
cf.
https://jax-ws.dev.java.net/guide/Using_JAX_WS_2_1_with_JavaSE6.html
Thanks.
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