JBoss EAP fatal StackOverflowError occurs during session passivation or replication

Issue

• We see an exception like the following when the session is replicated or passivated:

2010-02-15 10:12:44,930 FATAL [org.jboss.serial.persister.RegularObjectPersister] error
    java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
         at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor6250.invoke(Unknown Source)
         at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
         at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
         at org.jboss.serial.persister.RegularObjectPersister.writeSlotWithMethod(RegularObjectPersister.java:120)
         at org.jboss.serial.persister.RegularObjectPersister.defaultWrite(RegularObjectPersister.java:86)
         at org.jboss.serial.persister.RegularObjectPersister.writeData(RegularObjectPersister.java:62)
         at org.jboss.serial.objectmetamodel.ObjectDescriptorFactory.describeObject(ObjectDescriptorFactory.java:276)
         at org.jboss.serial.objectmetamodel.DataContainer$DataContainerDirectOutput.writeObject(DataContainer.java:206)
         at org.jboss.serial.persister.RegularObjectPersister.writeSlotWithFields(RegularObjectPersister.java:182)
         at org.jboss.serial.persister.RegularObjectPersister.defaultWrite(RegularObjectPersister.java:90)
         at org.jboss.serial.persister.RegularObjectPersister.writeData(RegularObjectPersister.java:62)
         at org.jboss.serial.objectmetamodel.ObjectDescriptorFactory.describeObject(ObjectDescriptorFactory.java:276)
         at org.jboss.serial.objectmetamodel.DataContainer$DataContainerDirectOutput.writeObject(DataContainer.java:206)
         at org.jboss.serial.persister.RegularObjectPersister.writeSlotWithFields(RegularObjectPersister.java:182)
         at org.jboss.serial.persister.RegularObjectPersister.defaultWrite(RegularObjectPersister.java:90)
         at org.jboss.serial.persister.RegularObjectPersister.writeData(RegularObjectPersister.java:62)
         at org.jboss.serial.objectmetamodel.ObjectDescriptorFactory.describeObject(ObjectDescriptorFactory.java:276)
         at org.jboss.serial.objectmetamodel.DataContainer$DataContainerDirectOutput.writeObject(DataContainer.java:206)
         at org.jboss.serial.persister.ObjectOutputStreamProxy.writeObjectOverride(ObjectOutputStreamProxy.java:60)
         at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject(ObjectOutputStream.java:298)
         at java.util.HashMap.writeObject(HashMap.java:1038)
         at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor6250.invoke(Unknown Source)
         at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
         at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
         at org.jboss.serial.persister.RegularObjectPersister.writeSlotWithMethod(RegularObjectPersister.java:120)
         at org.jboss.serial.persister.RegularObjectPersister.defaultWrite(RegularObjectPersister.java:86)
         at org.jboss.serial.persister.RegularObjectPersister.writeData(RegularObjectPersister.java:62)
    .. ..
         at org.jboss.serial.persister.RegularObjectPersister.writeSlotWithFields(RegularObjectPersister.java:182)
         at org.jboss.serial.persister.RegularObjectPersister.defaultWrite(RegularObjectPersister.java:90)
         at org.jboss.serial.persister.RegularObjectPersister.writeData(RegularObjectPersister.java:62)
    Caused by: java.lang.StackOverflowError
         at java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException.<init>(InvocationTargetException.java:54)
         at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor6247.invoke(Unknown Source)
         at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
         at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
         at org.jboss.serial.persister.RegularObjectPersister.writeSlotWithMethod(RegularObjectPersister.java:120)
         at org.jboss.serial.persister.RegularObjectPersister.defaultWrite(RegularObjectPersister.java:86)
         at org.jboss.serial.persister.RegularObjectPersister.writeData(RegularObjectPersister.java:62)
         at org.jboss.serial.objectmetamodel.ObjectDescriptorFactory.describeObject(ObjectDescriptorFactory.java:276)
         at org.jboss.serial.objectmetamodel.DataContainer$DataContainerDirectOutput.writeObject(DataContainer.java:206)
         at org.jboss.serial.persister.RegularObjectPersister.writeSlotWithFields(RegularObjectPersister.java:182)
         at org.jboss.serial.persister.RegularObjectPersister.defaultWrite(RegularObjectPersister.java:90)
         at org.jboss.serial.persister.RegularObjectPersister.writeData(RegularObjectPersister.java:62)
         at org.jboss.serial.objectmetamodel.ObjectDescriptorFactory.describeObject(ObjectDescriptorFactory.java:276)
         at org.jboss.serial.objectmetamodel.DataContainer$DataContainerDirectOutput.writeObject(DataContainer.java:206)
         at org.jboss.serial.persister.ObjectOutputStreamProxy.writeObjectOverride(ObjectOutputStreamProxy.java:60)
         at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject(ObjectOutputStream.java:298)
         at java.util.HashMap.writeObject(HashMap.java:1038)