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When creating web service references you can choose a "project web service" as a target among other options. I would expect that once the service is listed there, it should be usable for creating the WS reference. This is however not the exactly true, as WS reference creation fails for all web services that are not deployed in running appserver. I believe that it would be much more user friendly if the web service references could be created from project web services in an off-line mode (no need to run app server, one just needs to generate WSDL of the service).
moving opened issues where TM != dev to TM=TBD