Unable to access env-entry in java:comp namespace from a non JavaEE spawned thread in JBoss EAP 6

Issue

• We have defined this env-entry in our war's WEB-INF/web.xml

      <env-entry>
        <env-entry-name>config/info</env-entry-name>
        <env-entry-type>java.lang.String</env-entry-type>
        <env-entry-value>someValue</env-entry-value>
      </env-entry>

And we try to look it up as shown below, but we get NameNotFoundException when we try to look it up from a Thread that was created from our war.

InitialContext ic = new InitialContext();
ic.lookup("java:comp/env/config/info");