Can't create SOAP client in Netbeans existing project

[nmc]

I'm trying to follow these tutorials on how to get Netbeans (v 7.1.1) to automatically create a SOAP web service client:

http://netbeans.org/kb/docs/websvc/client.html
http://blog.jdevelop.eu/2008/02/27/creating-soap-web-services-with-netbeans-6/

But I can't seem to find the Web Service from WSDL file type on some of my projects.



Some of my projects do display that file type and some don't. The particular project for which I need to create the SOAP client does NOT list that file type. Why would this be?

They are all Web Application projects as far as I know of (Struts2 + Spring + Hibernate frameworks). I checked them out of subversion from Netbeans projects created by other programmers. It's possible that the original Netbeans project was created in a previous version of Netbeans - not sure if this matters.

How do I get the Web Service from WSDL new file type to show up for my existing project?

(For those of you active on Stackoverflow, I also posted it at http://stackoverflow.com/q/11657138/727439)

[nmc]

Thanks. I have found a work around the problem as well, but I would really like to know why I don't have the option to add Web Service client to existing projects.