Stateful session bean causes NPE when using container interceptor

Add a container interceptor in jboss-ejb3.xml and deploy. The deployment fails with a NPE.

The issue occurs for a stateful session bean (that contains no timer methods, please see the forum thread)

11:24:29,490 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-3) MSC00001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.unit."testtx.war".INSTALL: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit."testtx.war".INSTALL: JBAS018733: Failed to process phase INSTALL of deployment "testtx.war"
at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:127) [jboss-as-server-7.2.0.Final.jar:7.2.0.Final]
at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1811) [jboss-msc-1.0.4.GA.jar:1.0.4.GA]
at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1746) [jboss-msc-1.0.4.GA.jar:1.0.4.GA]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) [rt.jar:1.7.0_17]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) [rt.jar:1.7.0_17]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722) [rt.jar:1.7.0_17]
Caused by: org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitProcessingException: JBAS011030: Could not configure component sample.RemoteStateful
at org.jboss.as.ee.component.deployers.EEModuleConfigurationProcessor.deploy(EEModuleConfigurationProcessor.java:91)
at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:120) [jboss-as-server-7.2.0.Final.jar:7.2.0.Final]
... 5 more
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.jboss.as.ejb3.component.EJBContainerInterceptorsViewConfigurator.doConfigure(EJBContainerInterceptorsViewConfigurator.java:143)
at org.jboss.as.ejb3.component.EJBContainerInterceptorsViewConfigurator.configure(EJBContainerInterceptorsViewConfigurator.java:104)
at org.jboss.as.ee.component.ComponentDescription$DefaultComponentConfigurator.configure(ComponentDescription.java:929)
at org.jboss.as.ee.component.deployers.EEModuleConfigurationProcessor.deploy(EEModuleConfigurationProcessor.java:80)
... 6 more

It seems to happen when I configure the timeout in ejb-jar.xml which looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ejb-jar version="3.1" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/ejb-jar_3_1.xsd">
<display-name>Test Server</display-name>

<enterprise-beans>
<session>
<ejb-name>sample.RemoteStateful</ejb-name>
<ejb-class>sample.StatefulSample</ejb-class>
<session-type>Stateful</session-type>
<stateful-timeout>
<timeout>30</timeout>
<unit>Seconds</unit>
</stateful-timeout>
</session>
</enterprise-beans>
</ejb-jar>

My jboss-ejb3.xml looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jboss:ejb-jar xmlns:jboss="http://www.jboss.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:ci ="urn:container-interceptors:1.0"
version="3.1">
<assembly-descriptor xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee">
<ci:container-interceptors>
<!-- Default interceptor -->
<interceptor-binding>
<ejb-name>*</ejb-name>
<interceptor-class>sample.EjbContainerInterceptor</interceptor-class>
</interceptor-binding>
</ci:container-interceptors>
</assembly-descriptor>
</jboss:ejb-jar>