Deployment fails to call Web Service in the same JBoss instance at deployment time in JBoss EAP 6

Issue

• Deployment fails to call Web Service in the same JBoss instance at deployment time in JBoss EAP 6. We have a deployment which calls our JAXWS Web Service at startup. It is is getting a 404 trying to access the URL, yet we can use SOAPUI or wget and are able to connect to the web service.

  java.io.FileNotFoundException: http://localhost:8080/ExampleWebService/ExampleWebService?wsdl
      at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1457)
      at java.net.URL.openStream(URL.java:1010)
      at com.jboss.examples.ejb3.ClientService.init(ClientService.java:24)
  

  ... followed later by ...

  INFO  [org.jboss.web] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 56) JBAS018210: Register web context: /ExampleWebService