java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to find ContainerDependencyMetaData Exception when deploying EAR with client module

Issue

• We created EAR file and trying deploy into the Jboss server, we are getting the following exception java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to find ContainerDependencyMetaData for interface: XYZLocal.
• This class is from ABC project, we don't want to add ABC.jar and want to add only client(ABC_Client.jar) to the EAR.
• We are trying to separate out local/remote business interfaces (EJB 2.1) in separate module(s) (as ABC_Client.jar).
• We have local references to EJBs and are trying to use above ejb client jar to refer to those EJBs.