Hibernate seems to have a problem finding a mapped superclass in your persistence unit.
Have you tried using your persistence unit outside of Glassfish in the Java SE way with Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory()? Please check if you get the same error in that scenario.
HTH,
Harald
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