java.lang.ArrayStoreException: sun.reflect.annotation.TypeNotPresentExceptionProxy in JBoss EAP 6.x

Issue

• We are trying to our application JBoss EAP 5.1.0 to JBoss EAP 6.2.0 and getting the error below:

ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-5) MSC000001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.unit."example.war".INSTALL: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit."example.war".INSTALL: JBAS018733: Failed to process phase INSTALL of deployment "example.war"
       at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:127) [jboss-as-server-7.3.0.Final-redhat-14.jar:7.3.0.Final-redhat-14]
       at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1811) [jboss-msc-1.0.4.GA-redhat-1.jar:1.0.4.GA-redhat-1]
       at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1746) [jboss-msc-1.0.4.GA-redhat-1.jar:1.0.4.GA-redhat-1]
       at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) [rt.jar:1.7.0_40]
       at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) [rt.jar:1.7.0_40]
       at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724) [rt.jar:1.7.0_40]
Caused by: java.lang.ArrayStoreException: sun.reflect.annotation.TypeNotPresentExceptionProxy
       at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseClassArray(AnnotationParser.java:673) [rt.jar:1.7.0_40]
       at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseArray(AnnotationParser.java:480) [rt.jar:1.7.0_40]
       at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseMemberValue(AnnotationParser.java:306) [rt.jar:1.7.0_40]
       at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseAnnotation(AnnotationParser.java:241) [rt.jar:1.7.0_40]
       at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseAnnotations2(AnnotationParser.java:88) [rt.jar:1.7.0_40]
       at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseAnnotations(AnnotationParser.java:70) [rt.jar:1.7.0_40]
       at java.lang.Class.initAnnotationsIfNecessary(Class.java:3168) [rt.jar:1.7.0_40]
       at java.lang.Class.getAnnotation(Class.java:3127) [rt.jar:1.7.0_40]
       at java.lang.Class.isAnnotationPresent(Class.java:3140) [rt.jar:1.7.0_40]
       at org.jboss.as.web.deployment.ServletContainerInitializerDeploymentProcessor.deploy(ServletContainerInitializerDeploymentProcessor.java:134)
       at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:120) [jboss-as-server-7.3.0.Final-redhat-14.jar:7.3.0.Final-redhat-14]
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