Remote EJB invocations in JBoss EAP 6.0.0 cause server to hang

Issue

The JBoss EAP 6 server becomes unresponsive during remote invocations of EJBs deployed in it.

Following log message appears in the server.log before it hangs.

java.lang.IllegalStateException: EJBCLIENT000025: No EJB receiver available for handling [appName:ratanetservices, moduleName:sequenceserver-ejb, distinctName:ratanet-server] combination for invocation context org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBClientInvocationContext@6b6d2702
    at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBClientContext.requireEJBReceiver(EJBClientContext.java:588)
    at org.jboss.ejb.client.ReceiverInterceptor.handleInvocation(ReceiverInterceptor.java:116)
    at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBClientInvocationContext.sendRequest(EJBClientInvocationContext.java:181)
    at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBInvocationHandler.doInvoke(EJBInvocationHandler.java:136)
    at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBInvocationHandler.doInvoke(EJBInvocationHandler.java:121)
    at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBInvocationHandler.invoke(EJBInvocationHandler.java:104)
    at $Proxy28.GetInstanceID(Unknown Source)