Unable to create deployment unit via REST in Business-Central deployed on WebSphere

Description of problem:

deploying project via REST as follows
POST http://${host}:${port}/business-central/rest/deployment/org.jboss:integration:1.2.0-SNAPSHOT/deploy

fails with exception in server log javax.enterprise.context.ContextNotActiveException: WebBeans context with scope type annotation @ApplicationScoped does not exist within current thread (see a more detailed stacktrace in attachment)

Please note that the tested version is community kie-wb-6.1.0.SNAPSHOT.