"IllegalStateException: Connection closed" Message connecting to MQSeries from Seam application

Issue

• When connecting to IBM MQSeries from a JBoss Seam application, the following exception occurs in the logs:

  Caused by: javax.jms.IllegalStateException: Connection closed
   at com.ibm.ejs.jms.JMSConnectionHandle.checkOpen(JMSConnectionHandle.java:806)
   at com.ibm.ejs.jms.JMSQueueConnectionHandle.createQueueSession(JMSQueueConnectionHandle.java:197)
   at org.jboss.seam.jms.QueueSession.create(QueueSession.java:38)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
   at org.jboss.seam.util.Reflections.invoke(Reflections.java:22)
   at org.jboss.seam.util.Reflections.invokeAndWrap(Reflections.java:144)
  

• The Seam application is calling an EJB3 which obtains a JMS connection from IBM MQSeries