EAP6 is not able to load class javax.net.SocketFactory from custom module.

Issue

• While running an application which uses a custom module, the following kind of exception is encountered:

12:32:38,583 WARN  [org.jboss.modules] (http-test.com/10.65.22.11:5454-1) Failed to define class aaa.bbb.ccc.TimedSocketFactory in Module "aaa.bbb.ccc:main" from local module loader @ea06a1 (roots: /allJBoss/EAP-6.0.1/jboss-eap-6.0/gsa_modules,/allJBoss/EAP-6.0.1/jboss-eap-6.0/modules): org.jboss.modules.ModuleLoadError: Module javax.net.SocketFactory:main is not found in local module loader @ea06a1 (roots: /allJBoss/EAP-6.0.1/jboss-eap-6.0/custom_modules,/allJBoss/EAP-6.0.1/jboss-eap-6.0/modules)
        at org.jboss.modules.ModuleLoadException.toError(ModuleLoadException.java:78)
        at org.jboss.modules.Module.getPathsUnchecked(Module.java:1191)
        at org.jboss.modules.Module.loadModuleClass(Module.java:522)
        at org.jboss.modules.ModuleClassLoader.findClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:182)
        at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClassUnchecked(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:468)
        at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClassChecked(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:456)
        at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClass(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:398)
        at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.loadClass(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:120)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) [rt.jar:1.7.0_11]
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:791) [rt.jar:1.7.0_11]
        at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142) [rt.jar:1.7.0_11]
        at org.jboss.modules.ModuleClassLoader.doDefineOrLoadClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:327)
        at org.jboss.modules.ModuleClassLoader.defineClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:391)
        at org.jboss.modules.ModuleClassLoader.loadClassLocal(ModuleClassLoader.java:243)
        at org.jboss.modules.ModuleClassLoader$1.loadClassLocal(ModuleClassLoader.java:73)
        at org.jboss.modules.Module.loadModuleClass(Module.java:527)
        at org.jboss.modules.ModuleClassLoader.findClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:182)
        at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClassUnchecked(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:468)
        at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClassChecked(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:456)
        at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClass(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:398)
        at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.loadClass(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:120)
        at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) [rt.jar:1.7.0_11]
        at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:186) [rt.jar:1.7.0_11]
        at com.sybase.jdbc4.timedio.SocketDbio.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at com.sybase.jdbc4.timedio.Dbio.connect(Unknown Source)
        at com.sybase.jdbc4.timedio.InStreamMgr.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at com.sybase.jdbc4.tds.Tds.login(Unknown Source)
        at com.sybase.jdbc4.jdbc.SybConnection.a(Unknown Source)
        at com.sybase.jdbc4.jdbc.SybConnection.handleHAFailover(Unknown Source)
        at com.sybase.jdbc4.jdbc.SybConnection.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at com.sybase.jdbc4.jdbc.SybConnection.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at com.sybase.jdbc4.jdbc.SybDriver.connect(Unknown Source)
        at org.jboss.jca.adapters.jdbc.local.LocalManagedConnectionFactory.getHALocalManagedConnection(LocalManagedConnectionFactory.java:302)
        at org.jboss.jca.adapters.jdbc.local.LocalManagedConnectionFactory.createManagedConnection(LocalManagedConnectionFactory.java:236)
        at org.jboss.jca.core.connectionmanager.pool.mcp.SemaphoreArrayListManagedConnectionPool.createConnectionEventListener(SemaphoreArrayListManagedConnectionPool.java:775)
        at org.jboss.jca.core.connectionmanager.pool.mcp.SemaphoreArrayListManagedConnectionPool.getConnection(SemaphoreArrayListManagedConnectionPool.java:345)
        at org.jboss.jca.core.connectionmanager.pool.AbstractPool.getSimpleConnection(AbstractPool.java:397)
        at org.jboss.jca.core.connectionmanager.pool.AbstractPool.getConnection(AbstractPool.java:365)
        at org.jboss.jca.core.connectionmanager.AbstractConnectionManager.getManagedConnection(AbstractConnectionManager.java:329)
        at org.jboss.jca.core.connectionmanager.tx.TxConnectionManagerImpl.getManagedConnection(TxConnectionManagerImpl.java:368)
        at org.jboss.jca.core.connectionmanager.AbstractConnectionManager.allocateConnection(AbstractConnectionManager.java:464)
        at org.jboss.jca.adapters.jdbc.WrapperDataSource.getConnection(WrapperDataSource.java:139)

• The custom module has the following entry mentioned in the "module.xml" file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<module xmlns="urn:jboss:module:1.0" name="test.custom.sockets">
        <resources>
                <resource-root path="testSocketFactory.jar"/>
        </resources>
        <dependencies>
                <module name="com.sybase"/>
                <module name="org.apache.log4j"/>
        </dependencies>
</module>