I went back and read similar posts and realized that they all indicated a specific port number. The error in my run does not. I went back and reviewed the steps in the instruction,
http://netbeans.org/kb/docs/web/quickstart-webapps-gwt.html#creating, again, I found one mistake: Instead of choosing "Google Web Toolkit" from the Framework list, I chose it from the Project dialog box. That was the problem. I re-created another Hello project and it works now.