Vista : createProcess truncate the command and generates an IOException with no error code

we get various failures during build and run of the GlassFish appserver.

    [java] C:\Users\dochez\java\cvs\glassfish\glassfish\servlet-api\build.xml:28
: The following error occurred while executing this line:
    [java] C:\Users\dochez\java\cvs\glassfish\glassfish\servlet-api\src\jakarta-
servletapi-5\jsr154\build.xml:120: Javadoc failed: java.io.IOException: CreatePr
ocess: C:\Users\dochez\Applications\Java\jdk1.5.0_08\bin\javadoc.exe -d C:\Users
\dochez\java\cvs\glassfish\glassfish\servlet-api\src\jakarta-servletapi-5\jsr154
\build\docs\api -use -windowtitle "Servlet API Documentation" -doctitle "Servlet
 API Documentation" -bottom "Portions Copyright © 1999-2002 The Apache Soft
ware Foundation. All Rights Reserved. Portions Copyright © 2005-2006 Sun M
icrosystems Inc. All Rights Reserved" -classpath C:\Users\dochez\java\cvs\glass
fish\publish\glassfish\lib\ant\lib\ant-antlr.jar;C:\Users\dochez\java\cvs\glassf
ish\publish\glassfish\lib\ant\lib\ant-apache-bcel.jar;C:\Users\dochez\java\cvs\g
lassfish\publish\glassfish\lib\ant\lib\ant-apache-bsf.jar;C:\Users\dochez\java\c
vs\glassfish\publish\glassfish\lib\ant\lib\ant-apache-log4j.jar;C:\Users\dochez\
java\cvs\glassfish\publish\glassfish\lib\ant\lib\ant-apache-oro.jar;C:\Users\doc
hez\java\cvs\glassfish\publish\glassfish\lib\ant\lib\ant-apache-regexp.jar;C:\Us
ers\dochez\java\cvs\glassfish\publish\glassfish\lib\ant\ö

you can also look at

https://glassfish.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1088

The issue is limited to 1.5.0_08 on vista as it appears fixed in 1.6.
It works fine on XP with 1.5