Standalone EJB client fails to connect with RuntimeException: Operation failed with status WAITING in JBoss EAP6

Issue

• When running EJB tests with a standalone client I get the above error below:

WARN  [ConfigBasedEJBClientContextSelector] Could not register a EJB receiver for connection to localhost:4447
 java.lang.RuntimeException: Operation failed with status WAITING
    at org.jboss.ejb.client.remoting.IoFutureHelper.get(IoFutureHelper.java:93)
    at org.jboss.ejb.client.remoting.ConfigBasedEJBClientContextSelector.setupEJBReceivers(ConfigBasedEJBClientContextSelector.java:119)
    at org.jboss.ejb.client.remoting.ConfigBasedEJBClientContextSelector.<init>(ConfigBasedEJBClientContextSelector.java:76)
    at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBClientContext.<clinit>(EJBClientContext.java:77)
    at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBInvocationHandler.doInvoke(EJBInvocationHandler.java:120)
    at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBInvocationHandler.invoke(EJBInvocationHandler.java:104)
    at $Proxy0.hello(Unknown Source)
    at com.jboss.examples.ejb3.client.Client.main(Client.java:31)
 Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: EJBCLIENT000025: No EJB receiver available for handling [appName:, moduleName:helloWorld-ejb, distinctName:] combination for invocation context org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBClientInvocationContext@71060478
    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 $Proxy0.hello(Unknown Source)
    at com.jboss.examples.ejb3.client.Client.main(Client.java:31)
 Java Result: 1

• We are seeing this when our standalone client tries to call an ejb in JBoss EAP 6

22:56:17,177 WARN  [org.jboss.ejb.client.remoting.ConfigBasedEJBClientContextSelector] Could not register a EJB receiver for connection to localhost:4447: java.lang.RuntimeException: Operation failed with status WAITING
    at org.jboss.ejb.client.remoting.IoFutureHelper.get(IoFutureHelper.java:93) [jboss-ejb-client-1.0.23.Final-redhat-1.jar:1.0.23.Final-redhat-1]
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