Using the latest build the exception the exception is no longer thrown just as you said. It prints a warning related to the bad .jar file and it proceeds with the deployment process.
But now a new exception is thrown:
[#|2010-01-11T14:20:34.707+0000|SEVERE|glassfishv3.0|javax.enterprise.system.core.org.glassfish.internal.data|_ThreadID=27;_ThreadName=Thread-1;|Exception while invoking class org.glassfish.appclient.server.core.AppClientServerApplication start method
org.jvnet.hk2.component.UnsatisfiedDepedencyException: Unsatisfied dependency exception : private org.glassfish.appclient.server.core.jws.DeveloperContentHandler org.glassfish.appclient.server.core.jws.JavaWebStartInfo.dch
at org.jvnet.hk2.component.InjectionManager.inject(InjectionManager.java:102)
at com.sun.hk2.component.AbstractWombImpl.inject(AbstractWombImpl.java:170)
at com.sun.hk2.component.ConstructorWomb$1.run(ConstructorWomb.java:87)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at com.sun.hk2.component.ConstructorWomb.initialize(ConstructorWomb.java:84)
at com.sun.hk2.component.AbstractWombImpl.get(AbstractWombImpl.java:77)
at com.sun.hk2.component.LazyInhabitant.get(LazyInhabitant.java:107)
at com.sun.hk2.component.AbstractInhabitantImpl.get(AbstractInhabitantImpl.java:60)
at org.jvnet.hk2.component.Habitat.getBy(Habitat.java:600)
at org.jvnet.hk2.component.Habitat.getByType(Habitat.java:581)
at org.jvnet.hk2.component.Habitat.getComponent(Habitat.java:341)
at org.glassfish.appclient.server.core.AppClientServerApplication.newJavaWebStartInfo(AppClientServerApplication.java:140)
(...)
Caused by: org.jvnet.hk2.component.ComponentException: Failed to create class org.glassfish.appclient.server.core.jws.DeveloperContentHandler
at com.sun.hk2.component.ConstructorWomb.create(ConstructorWomb.java:74)
at com.sun.hk2.component.AbstractWombImpl.get(AbstractWombImpl.java:71)
at com.sun.hk2.component.LazyInhabitant.get(LazyInhabitant.java:107)
at com.sun.hk2.component.AbstractInhabitantImpl.get(AbstractInhabitantImpl.java:60)
at org.jvnet.hk2.component.Habitat.getBy(Habitat.java:600)
at org.jvnet.hk2.component.Habitat.getByType(Habitat.java:581)
at com.sun.hk2.component.AbstractWombImpl$1.getValue(AbstractWombImpl.java:149)
at org.jvnet.hk2.component.InjectionManager.inject(InjectionManager.java:81)
... 44 more
Caused by: java.lang.AbstractMethodError: javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory.setFeature(Ljava/lang/String;Z)V
at org.glassfish.appclient.server.core.jws.DeveloperContentHandler.documentBuilderFactory(DeveloperContentHandler.java:269)
at org.glassfish.appclient.server.core.jws.DeveloperContentHandler.<clinit>(DeveloperContentHandler.java:96)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:355)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:308)
at com.sun.hk2.component.ConstructorWomb.create(ConstructorWomb.java:68)
... 51 more
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