Adding the first wsprovide maven example from http://community.jboss.org/wiki/JBossWS-wsprovide :

<plugin>
<groupId>org.jboss.ws.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jaxws-tools-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0.GA</version>
<configuration>
<verbose>true</verbose>
<endpointClass>org.jboss.test.ws.plugins.tools.wsprovide.TestEndpoint</endpointClass>
<generateWsdl>true</generateWsdl>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>wsprovide</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>

yields

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Error while running wsconsume

Embedded error: Failed to load: org.jboss.ws.tools.jaxws.impl.JBossWSProviderFactoryImpl
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[DEBUG] Trace
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Error while running wsconsume
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:719)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalWithLifecycle(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:556)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:535)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalAndHandleFailures(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:387)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeTaskSegments(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:348)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:180)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:328)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:138)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:362)
at org.apache.maven.cli.compat.CompatibleMain.main(CompatibleMain.java:60)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375)
Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoExecutionException: Error while running wsconsume
at org.jboss.ws.plugins.tools.AbstractWsProvideMojo.execute(AbstractWsProvideMojo.java:100)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:490)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:694)
... 17 more
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to load: org.jboss.ws.tools.jaxws.impl.JBossWSProviderFactoryImpl
at org.jboss.wsf.spi.util.ServiceLoader.loadDefault(ServiceLoader.java:236)
at org.jboss.wsf.spi.util.ServiceLoader.loadFromSystemProperty(ServiceLoader.java:169)
at org.jboss.wsf.spi.util.ServiceLoader.loadService(ServiceLoader.java:77)
at org.jboss.wsf.spi.tools.WSContractProvider.newInstance(WSContractProvider.java:86)
at org.jboss.wsf.spi.tools.WSContractProvider.newInstance(WSContractProvider.java:70)
at org.jboss.ws.plugins.tools.AbstractWsProvideMojo.execute(AbstractWsProvideMojo.java:93)
... 19 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.jboss.ws.tools.jaxws.impl.JBossWSProviderFactoryImpl
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248)
at org.jboss.wsf.spi.util.SecurityActions.loadClass(SecurityActions.java:123)
at org.jboss.wsf.spi.util.ServiceLoader.loadDefault(ServiceLoader.java:231)
... 24 more

Note the error is in wsconsume but the goal is wsprovide.

About the JBossWSProviderFactoryImpl missing - I still haven't successfully run the plugin. I have been scouring doc and google and have tried everything I can think of. I even added all the files from wsprovide.sh classpath additions and the above is the result.