JBoss EAP 7 CLI batch command failure with "deploy --force" for replace deployment

Issue

• Error while deploying using JBoss CLI
• Using deploy --force command on JBoss EAP 7 CLI batch mode fails and returns an error message.

• This used to work with JBoss EAP 6.4.7 however since I have upgraded to EAP 7 I get the following error:

• Command:

#jboss-cli.sh --connect --controller=127.0.0.1:9999 --user=admin --password=xxx --file="deploy.cli"
The batch failed with the following error (you are remaining in the batch editing mode to have a chance to correct the error): Request is missing the address part.

• deploy.cli:

batch
deploy --force ./jboss-ejb-in-ear.ear
run-batch