Tomcat -> GlassFish: java.lang.AbstractMethodError on JSP page access

An access to a JSP page may result in the following error:

java.lang.AbstractMethodError: org.apache.xerces.dom.DeferredDocumentImpl.
setDocumentURI(Ljava/lang/String;)V

The above error is caused by a known issue :
ParserUtils picks up parser from web app (ID 6412405)
Also documented in the above known issue are two workarounds - using a jvm option or removing the xerces package. The solution of removing the xerces package (or xerces.jar included in a WEB-INF\lib directory) has been tried and known to work.