Unable to parse endpoint XML definition in JBoss EAP 7.1

Issue

Unable to parse endpoint XML definition if more than one connection is configured. For example, in the case a client side wildfly-config.xml file with the following endpoint configuration:

    <endpoint xmlns="urn:jboss-remoting:5.0">
        <connections>
            <connection destination="remote+http://localhost:8080" read-timeout="20000" write-timeout="20000" heartbeat-interval="10000"/>
            <connection destination="remote+http://localhost:8380" read-timeout="20000" write-timeout="20000" heartbeat-interval="10000"/>
        </connections>
    </endpoint>

It will fall with a ConfigXMLParseException on the server.log as:

org.wildfly.client.config.ConfigXMLParseException: CONF0005: Unexpected element "connection" in namespace "urn:jboss-remoting:5.0" encountered
  at jar:http://host:8080/app/client.jar!/wildfly-config.xml:6:142