What causes llegalArgumentException Too many dependencies specified while deploying application in EAP 6.3

Issue

• While deploying an application in EAP 6.3 the following exception is encountered:

ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-19) MSC000001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.subunit."TestEAR"."TestEJB.jar".INSTALL: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.subunit."TestEAR"."TestEJB.jar".INSTALL: JBAS018733: Failed to process phase INSTALL of subdeployment "TestEJB.jar" of deployment "TestEAR"
        at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:166) [jboss-as-server-7.4.0.Final-redhat-19.jar:7.4.0.Final-redhat-19]
        at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1980) [jboss-msc-1.1.5.Final-redhat-1.jar:1.1.5.Final-redhat-1]
        at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1913) [jboss-msc-1.1.5.Final-redhat-1.jar:1.1.5.Final-redhat-1]
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:895) [rt.jar:1.6.0_45]
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:918) [rt.jar:1.6.0_45]
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) [rt.jar:1.6.0_45]
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Too many dependencies specified (max is 16383)
        at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceBuilderImpl.doAddDependency(ServiceBuilderImpl.java:216) [jboss-msc-1.1.5.Final-redhat-1.jar:1.1.5.Final-redhat-1]
        at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceBuilderImpl.addDependenciesNoCheck(ServiceBuilderImpl.java:158) [jboss-msc-1.1.5.Final-redhat-1.jar:1.1.5.Final-redhat-1]
        at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceBuilderImpl.addDependencies(ServiceBuilderImpl.java:152) [jboss-msc-1.1.5.Final-redhat-1.jar:1.1.5.Final-redhat-1]
        at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceBuilderImpl.addDependencies(ServiceBuilderImpl.java:142) [jboss-msc-1.1.5.Final-redhat-1.jar:1.1.5.Final-redhat-1]
        at org.jboss.as.naming.deployment.JndiNamingDependencyProcessor.deploy(JndiNamingDependencyProcessor.java:59)
        at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:159) [jboss-as-server-7.4.0.Final-redhat-19.jar:7.4.0.Final-redhat-19]
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