JBAS014249 if a fire and forget asynchronous ejb call is made

ERROR [org.jboss.as.ejb3] (EJB default - 1) JBAS014249: Error invoking method public abstract void org.jboss.as.quickstarts.ejb.asynchronous.AsynchronousAccess.fireAndForget(long) on bean named AsynchronousAccessBean for appname  modulename jboss-as-ejb-asynchronous-ejb distinctname : java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.jboss.as.ejb3.remote.protocol.versionone.MethodInvocationMessageHandler.invokeMethod(MethodInvocationMessageHandler.java:322)
	at org.jboss.as.ejb3.remote.protocol.versionone.MethodInvocationMessageHandler.access$100(MethodInvocationMessageHandler.java:70)
	at org.jboss.as.ejb3.remote.protocol.versionone.MethodInvocationMessageHandler$1.run(MethodInvocationMessageHandler.java:203)
	at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25]
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25]
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25]
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25]
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25]
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25]
	at org.jboss.threads.JBossThread.run(JBossThread.java:122)

11:30:20,242 ERROR [org.jboss.as.ejb3] (EJB default - 1) JBAS014250: Could not write method invocation failure for method public abstract void org.jboss.as.quickstarts.ejb.asynchronous.AsynchronousAccess.fireAndForget(long) on bean named AsynchronousAccessBean for appname  modulename jboss-as-ejb-asynchronous-ejb distinctname  due to: java.io.IOException: JBAS014560: Could not open message outputstream for writing to Channel
	at org.jboss.as.ejb3.remote.protocol.AbstractMessageHandler.writeException(AbstractMessageHandler.java:102)
	at org.jboss.as.ejb3.remote.protocol.versionone.MethodInvocationMessageHandler.access$400(MethodInvocationMessageHandler.java:70)
	at org.jboss.as.ejb3.remote.protocol.versionone.MethodInvocationMessageHandler$1.run(MethodInvocationMessageHandler.java:213)
	at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25]
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25]
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25]
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25]
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25]
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25]
	at org.jboss.threads.JBossThread.run(JBossThread.java:122)
Caused by: org.jboss.remoting3.NotOpenException: Writes closed
	at org.jboss.remoting3.remote.RemoteConnectionChannel.openOutboundMessage(RemoteConnectionChannel.java:112)
	at org.jboss.remoting3.remote.RemoteConnectionChannel.writeMessage(RemoteConnectionChannel.java:301)
	at org.jboss.as.ejb3.remote.protocol.versionone.ChannelAssociation.acquireChannelMessageOutputStream(ChannelAssociation.java:68)
	at org.jboss.as.ejb3.remote.protocol.AbstractMessageHandler.writeException(AbstractMessageHandler.java:100)
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