JBoss is unable to cast classes to javax.xml.soap.SAAJMetaFactory

Issue

• While running WebService based applications deployed on JBoss, it throws the following kind of exceptions:

14:37:37,801 SEVERE [http] WSSERVLET11: failed to parse runtime descriptor: java.lang.Error: javax.xml.soap.SOAPException: Unable to create SAAJ meta-factoryorg.jboss.ws.core.soap.SAAJMetaFactoryImpl cannot be cast to javax.xml.soap.SAAJMetaFactory
java.lang.Error: javax.xml.soap.SOAPException: Unable to create SAAJ meta-factoryorg.jboss.ws.core.soap.SAAJMetaFactoryImpl cannot be cast to javax.xml.soap.SAAJMetaFactory
    at com.sun.xml.ws.api.SOAPVersion.<init>(SOAPVersion.java:181)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.api.SOAPVersion.<clinit>(SOAPVersion.java:83)
    at com.sun.xml.ws.api.BindingID.<clinit>(BindingID.java:318)

• The application contains the following jars inside the "WEB-INF/lib" directory.

activation-1.1.jar       
jaxb-api-2.1.jar           
jaxws-api-2.1.jar          
jsr181-api-1.0-MR1.jar    
jsr250-api-1.0.jar        
resolver-20050927.jar     
saaj-api-1.3.jar          
stax-api-1.0.jar