If a client use the legacy jboss-ejb-client.properties and configure Deployment and ClusterNodeSelector neither of it is invoked.

jboss-ejb-client.xml is like this:
remote.connectionprovider.create.options.org.xnio.Options.SSL_ENABLED=false
deployment.node.selector=org.jboss.wfink.eap71.playground.client.legacy.TestNodeSelector
remote.connections=one

remote.connection.one.host=localhost
remote.connection.one.port = 8080
remote.connection.one.username = user1
remote.connection.one.password = user1+

remote.clusters=ejb
remote.cluster.ejb.clusternode.selector=org.jboss.wfink.eap71.playground.client.legacy.TestNodeSelector
remote.cluster.ejb.username = user1
remote.cluster.ejb.password = user1+