I encountered the same issue, when jdk 1.7 was used to compile then jre 1.4 was used for execution.
My solution was to set environment variable PATH by adding pathname C:\glassfish3\jdk7\bin in front of the existing PATH setting. The updated value is "C:\glassfish3\jdk7\bin;C:\Sun\SDK\bin". After the update, the problem was gone.
