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It seems not possible to disable the automatic Web Service generation mechanism, triggered by the presence of a @WebService annotation in the project code. Developing a Web Application based on Spring framework and the Xfire Web Service library, I discovered that the simple presence of a @WebService annotation in the code triggers a massive set of automatic code modifications (web.xml, ant build file, library dependencies ...) that forces the project toward a specific predefined WS implementation, making the whole NB5.5 ide virtually unusable for other WS architecture contexts.
I understand the problem. Yes, we should think about the changes in WS support to be able to switch off the current behaviour. I am changing priority to P2 and change DEFECT to FEATURE.