Defining web.xml with <ejb-local-ref> is not working in EAP6 and throws NameNotFoundException

Issue

• We have a WAR File which has the tag defined in it's "web.xml" file.

 <ejb-local-ref>              
    <ejb-ref-name>ejb3/SomeService/local</ejb-ref-name>
    <ejb-ref-type>Session</ejb-ref-type>
    <local>foo.SomeService</local>               
 </ejb-local-ref>

In Client code we are trying to lookup the local EJB as following:

SomeService svc = (SomeService) ctx.lookup("ejb3/SomeService/local");