EJB client requires authentication context to be configured

<configuration>
    <jboss-ejb-client xmlns="urn:jboss:wildfly-client-ejb:3.0">
        <connections>
            <connection uri="remote+http://127.0.0.1:8080" />
        </connections>
    </jboss-ejb-client>
</configuration>

    <authentication-client xmlns="urn:elytron:1.0">
        <authentication-rules>
            <rule use-configuration="default"/>
        </authentication-rules>
        <authentication-configurations>
            <configuration name="default">
                <use-service-loader-providers/>
            </configuration>
        </authentication-configurations>
    </authentication-client>

10:55:35,178 INFO  [org.wildfly.security.Version:57] ELY00001: WildFly Elytron version 1.1.0.Beta42-redhat-1
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
        at org.wildfly.security.auth.client.AuthenticationContext.lambda$static$0(AuthenticationContext.java:49)
        at org.wildfly.common.context.ContextManager.getPrivileged(ContextManager.java:282)
        at org.wildfly.security.auth.client.AuthenticationContext.captureCurrent(AuthenticationContext.java:81)
        at org.jboss.remoting3.Endpoint.getConnectedIdentity(Endpoint.java:139)
        at org.jboss.remoting3.Endpoint.getConnection(Endpoint.java:216)
        at org.jboss.ejb.protocol.remote.RemotingEJBDiscoveryProvider.lambda$discover$0(RemotingEJBDiscoveryProvider.java:103)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at org.jboss.ejb.protocol.remote.RemotingEJBDiscoveryProvider.discover(RemotingEJBDiscoveryProvider.java:103)
        at org.wildfly.discovery.impl.AggregateDiscoveryProvider.discover(AggregateDiscoveryProvider.java:58)
        at org.wildfly.discovery.ConfiguredProvider.discover(ConfiguredProvider.java:45)
        at org.wildfly.discovery.Discovery.discover(Discovery.java:94)
        at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBClientContext.discover(EJBClientContext.java:442)
        at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBClientContext.discoverAffinityNone(EJBClientContext.java:714)
        at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBClientContext.performLocatedAction(EJBClientContext.java:701)
        at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBClientContext.createSession(EJBClientContext.java:681)
        at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBClient.createSession(EJBClient.java:288)
        at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBRootContext.lookupNative(EJBRootContext.java:146)
        at org.wildfly.naming.client.AbstractContext.lookup(AbstractContext.java:88)
        at org.wildfly.naming.client.WildFlyRootContext.lookup(WildFlyRootContext.java:153)
        at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:417)
        at client.Client.main(Client.java:48)
Caused by: org.wildfly.security.auth.client.InvalidAuthenticationConfigurationException: org.wildfly.client.config.ConfigXMLParseException: CONF0003: Unexpected end of document
        at file:/home/istraka/repositories/istraka/mock-artifacts/ejbclient/eap7.1-set-source-ip-address/client/target/classes/META-INF/wildfly-config.xml:23:17
        at org.wildfly.security.auth.client.DefaultAuthenticationContextProvider.lambda$static$0(DefaultAuthenticationContextProvider.java:40)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at org.wildfly.security.auth.client.DefaultAuthenticationContextProvider.<clinit>(DefaultAuthenticationContextProvider.java:36)
        ... 21 more
Caused by: org.wildfly.client.config.ConfigXMLParseException: CONF0003: Unexpected end of document
        at file:/home/istraka/repositories/istraka/mock-artifacts/ejbclient/eap7.1-set-source-ip-address/client/target/classes/META-INF/wildfly-config.xml:23:17
        at org.wildfly.client.config.ConfigurationXMLStreamReader.unexpectedDocumentEnd(ConfigurationXMLStreamReader.java:266)
        at org.wildfly.security.auth.client.ElytronXmlParser.parseAuthenticationClientConfiguration(ElytronXmlParser.java:208)
        at org.wildfly.security.auth.client.ElytronXmlParser.parseAuthenticationClientConfiguration(ElytronXmlParser.java:141)
        at org.wildfly.se