MTOM Policy Assertion not able to get recognized in CXF

Issue

• We have this WSDL policy defined in the wsdl:

<wsp:Policy wsu:Id="ForceMTOM" xmlns:wsp="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/09/policy">
    <wsoma:OptimizedMimeSerialization xmlns:wsoma="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/09/policy/optimizedmimeserialization" />
</wsp:Policy>
...
<wsdl:binding>
  ...
  <wsdl:operation name="sayHelloToName">
    <wsp:PolicyReference URI="#ForceMTOM" wsdl:required="true"/>
    ...
  </wsdl:operation>
</wsdl:binding>

• This worked in EAP 6.0.1, but when deploying the WS that uses this WSDL, getting the below error in EAP 6.1.1:

21:07:21,752 ERROR [fail] (MSC service thread 1-4) MSC000001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.unit."xxx-ws.war".INSTALL: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit."xxx-ws.war".INSTALL: JBAS018733: Failed to process phase INSTALL of deployment "xxx-ws.war"
    at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:127) [jboss-as-server-7.2.1.Final-redhat-10.jar:7.2.1.Final-redhat-10]
    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1811) [jboss-msc-1.0.4.GA-redhat-1.jar:1.0.4.GA-redhat-1]
    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1746) [jboss-msc-1.0.4.GA-redhat-1.jar:1.0.4.GA-redhat-1]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) [rt.jar:1.7.0_17]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) [rt.jar:1.7.0_17]
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722) [rt.jar:1.7.0_17]
Caused by: javax.xml.ws.WebServiceException: java.lang.NullPointerException
    at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.EndpointImpl.doPublish(EndpointImpl.java:368)
    at org.jboss.wsf.stack.cxf.deployment.EndpointImpl.doPublish(EndpointImpl.java:66)
    at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.EndpointImpl.publish(EndpointImpl.java:250)
    at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.EndpointImpl.publish(EndpointImpl.java:536)
    at org.jboss.wsf.stack.cxf.configuration.NonSpringBusHolder.configure(NonSpringBusHolder.java:116)
    at org.jboss.wsf.stack.cxf.deployment.aspect.BusDeploymentAspect.startDeploymentBus(BusDeploymentAspect.java:128)
    at org.jboss.wsf.stack.cxf.deployment.aspect.BusDeploymentAspect.start(BusDeploymentAspect.java:67)
    at org.jboss.as.webservices.deployers.AspectDeploymentProcessor.deploy(AspectDeploymentProcessor.java:74)
    at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:120) [jboss-as-server-7.2.1.Final-redhat-10.jar:7.2.1.Final-redhat-10]
    ... 5 more
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
    at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.support.JaxWsEndpointImpl.checkRespectBindingFeature(JaxWsEndpointImpl.java:266)
    at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.support.JaxWsEndpointImpl.extractWsdlExtensibilities(JaxWsEndpointImpl.java:226)
    at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.support.JaxWsEndpointImpl.<init>(JaxWsEndpointImpl.java:204)
    at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.support.JaxWsServiceFactoryBean.createEndpoint(JaxWsServiceFactoryBean.java:238)
    at org.apache.cxf.service.factory.ReflectionServiceFactoryBean.createEndpoints(ReflectionServiceFactoryBean.java:339)
    at org.apache.cxf.service.factory.ReflectionServiceFactoryBean.create(ReflectionServiceFactoryBean.java:271)
    at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.support.JaxWsServiceFactoryBean.create(JaxWsServiceFactoryBean.java:205)
    at org.apache.cxf.frontend.AbstractWSDLBasedEndpointFactory.createEndpoint(AbstractWSDLBasedEndpointFactory.java:101)
    at org.apache.cxf.frontend.ServerFactoryBean.create(ServerFactoryBean.java:159)
    at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.JaxWsServerFactoryBean.create(JaxWsServerFactoryBean.java:211)
    at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.EndpointImpl.getServer(EndpointImpl.java:453)
    at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.EndpointImpl.doPublish(EndpointImpl.java:333)
    ... 13 more