It's an oldie, I agree, but I have the same issue here. It seems the faulty behavior is occurring when the EAR fails to predeploy due to TopLink validation failures (at least).
I'm using Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v2.1 (9.1.1) (build b60e-fcs)
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