Deployment of an EnterpriseArchive onto remote GlassFish fails, when the contextRoot recorded in GlassFish, does not start with a slash

 
@RunWith(Arquillian.class)
public class ClientTest {
    ... 
    @Deployment
    public static EnterpriseArchive createTestArchive() {
    JavaArchive jar = ShrinkWrap.create(JavaArchive.class, "test.jar").addClasses(Client.class)
        .addAsManifestResource(EmptyAsset.INSTANCE, ArchivePaths.create("beans.xml"));
    EnterpriseArchive ear = ShrinkWrap.create(EnterpriseArchive.class, "test.ear")
        .addAsModule(jar);
    return ear;
}
...

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Test set: TestSuite
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Tests run: 5, Failures: 1, Errors: 0, Skipped: 4, Time elapsed: 2.316 sec <<< FAILURE!
arquillianBeforeClass(org.demo.ClientTest)  Time elapsed: 0 sec  <<< FAILURE!
java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1
          at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1952)
          at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1925)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.container.glassfish.remote_3_1.clientutils.GlassFishClientService.resolveWebModuleContextRoot(GlassFishClientService.java:307)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.container.glassfish.remote_3_1.clientutils.GlassFishClientService.doDeploy(GlassFishClientService.java:229)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.container.glassfish.remote_3_1.GlassFishRestDeployableContainer.deploy(GlassFishRestDeployableContainer.java:123)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.client.container.ContainerDeployController$3.call(ContainerDeployController.java:148)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.client.container.ContainerDeployController$3.call(ContainerDeployController.java:115)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.client.container.ContainerDeployController.executeOperation(ContainerDeployController.java:258)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.client.container.ContainerDeployController.deploy(ContainerDeployController.java:114)
          at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
          at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
          at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
          at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ObserverImpl.invoke(ObserverImpl.java:90)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.EventContextImpl.invokeObservers(EventContextImpl.java:99)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.EventContextImpl.proceed(EventContextImpl.java:81)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.client.container.DeploymentExceptionHandler.verifyExpectedExceptionDuringDeploy(DeploymentExceptionHandler.java:50)
          at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
          at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
          at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
          at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ObserverImpl.invoke(ObserverImpl.java:90)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.EventContextImpl.proceed(EventContextImpl.java:88)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.client.ContainerDeploymentContextHandler.createDeploymentContext(ContainerDeploymentContextHandler.java:78)
          at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
          at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
          at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
          at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ObserverImpl.invoke(ObserverImpl.java:90)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.EventContextImpl.proceed(EventContextImpl.java:88)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.client.ContainerDeploymentContextHandler.createContainerContext(ContainerDeploymentContextHandler.java:57)
          at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
          at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
          at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
          at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ObserverImpl.invoke(ObserverImpl.java:90)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.EventContextImpl.proceed(EventContextImpl.java:88)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ManagerImpl.fire(ManagerImpl.java:134)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ManagerImpl.fire(ManagerImpl.java:114)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.EventImpl.fire(EventImpl.java:67)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.client.container.ContainerDeployController$1.perform(ContainerDeployController.java:86)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.client.container.ContainerDeployController$1.perform(ContainerDeployController.java:79)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.client.container.ContainerDeployController.forEachDeployment(ContainerDeployController.java:250)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.client.container.ContainerDeployController.forEachManagedDeployment(ContainerDeployController.java:226)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.client.container.ContainerDeployController.deployManaged(ContainerDeployController.java:78)
          at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
          at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
          at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
          at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ObserverImpl.invoke(ObserverImpl.java:90)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.EventContextImpl.invokeObservers(EventContextImpl.java:99)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.EventContextImpl.proceed(EventContextImpl.java:81)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ManagerImpl.fire(ManagerImpl.java:134)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ManagerImpl.fire(ManagerImpl.java:114)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.EventImpl.fire(EventImpl.java:67)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.container.test.impl.client.ContainerEventController.execute(ContainerEventController.java:97)
          at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
          at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
          at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
          at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ObserverImpl.invoke(ObserverImpl.java:90)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.EventContextImpl.invokeObservers(EventContextImpl.java:99)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.EventContextImpl.proceed(EventContextImpl.java:81)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.test.impl.TestContextHandler.createClassContext(TestContextHandler.java:68)
          at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
          at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
          at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
          at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ObserverImpl.invoke(ObserverImpl.java:90)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.EventContextImpl.proceed(EventContextImpl.java:88)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.test.impl.TestContextHandler.createSuiteContext(TestContextHandler.java:54)
          at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
          at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
          at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
          at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ObserverImpl.invoke(ObserverImpl.java:90)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.EventContextImpl.proceed(EventContextImpl.java:88)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ManagerImpl.fire(ManagerImpl.java:134)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ManagerImpl.fire(ManagerImpl.java:114)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.test.impl.EventTestRunnerAdaptor.beforeClass(EventTestRunnerAdaptor.java:80)
          at org.jboss.arquillian.testng.Arquillian.arquillianBeforeClass(Arquillian.java:76)
          at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
          at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
          at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
          at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
          at org.testng.internal.MethodInvocationHelper.invokeMethod(MethodInvocationHelper.java:76)
          at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeConfigurationMethod(Invoker.java:525)
          at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeConfigurations(Invoker.java:202)
          at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeConfigurations(Invoker.java:130)
          at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.invokeBeforeClassMethods(TestMethodWorker.java:173)
          at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.run(TestMethodWorker.java:105)
          at org.testng.TestRunner.runWorkers(TestRunner.java:1147)
          at org.testng.TestRunner.privateRun(TestRunner.java:749)
          at org.testng.TestRunner.run(TestRunner.java:600)
          at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runTest(SuiteRunner.java:317)
          at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runSequentially(SuiteRunner.java:312)
          at org.testng.SuiteRunner.privateRun(SuiteRunner.java:274)
          at org.testng.SuiteRunner.run(SuiteRunner.java:223)
          at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.runSuite(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:52)
          at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.run(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:86)
          at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesSequentially(TestNG.java:1039)
          at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesLocally(TestNG.java:964)
          at org.testng.TestNG.run(TestNG.java:900)
          at org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.TestNGExecutor.run(TestNGExecutor.java:60)
          at org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.TestNGDirectoryTestSuite.execute(TestNGDirectoryTestSuite.java:106)
          at org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.TestNGProvider.invoke(TestNGProvider.java:111)
          at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
          at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
          at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
          at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
          at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ProviderFactory$ClassLoaderProxy.invoke(ProviderFactory.java:103)
          at $Proxy0.invoke(Unknown Source)
          at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireStarter.invokeProvider(SurefireStarter.java:150)
          at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireStarter.runSuitesInProcess(SurefireStarter.java:91)
          at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.main(ForkedBooter.java:69)