NPE in void-returning async methods

04:02:04,686 INFO  [org.jboss.as.quickstarts.ejb.asynchronous.AsynchronousAccessBean] (EJB default - 1) action 'fireAndForget' finished
04:02:04,687 ERROR [org.jboss.as.ejb3] (EJB default - 1) JBAS014249: Error invoking method public abstract void org.jboss.as.quickstarts.ejb.asynchronous.AsynchronousAccess.fireAndForget(long) on bean named AsynchronousAccessBean for appname  modulename jboss-as-ejb-asynchronous-ejb distinctname : java.lang.NullPointerException
    at org.jboss.as.ejb3.remote.protocol.versionone.MethodInvocationMessageHandler.invokeMethod(MethodInvocationMessageHandler.java:322)
    at org.jboss.as.ejb3.remote.protocol.versionone.MethodInvocationMessageHandler.access$100(MethodInvocationMessageHandler.java:70)
    at org.jboss.as.ejb3.remote.protocol.versionone.MethodInvocationMessageHandler$1.run(MethodInvocationMessageHandler.java:203)
    at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471) [rt.jar:1.7.0_45]
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262) [rt.jar:1.7.0_45]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) [rt.jar:1.7.0_45]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) [rt.jar:1.7.0_45]
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744) [rt.jar:1.7.0_45]
    at org.jboss.threads.JBossThread.run(JBossThread.java:122)
04:02:04,689 ERROR [org.jboss.as.ejb3] (EJB default - 1) JBAS014250: Could not write method invocation failure for method public abstract void org.jboss.as.quickstarts.ejb.asynchronous.AsynchronousAccess.fireAndForget(long) on bean named AsynchronousAccessBean for appname  modulename jboss-as-ejb-asynchronous-ejb distinctname  due to: java.io.IOException: JBAS014560: Could not open message outputstream for writing to Channel
    at org.jboss.as.ejb3.remote.protocol.AbstractMessageHandler.writeException(AbstractMessageHandler.java:102)
    at org.jboss.as.ejb3.remote.protocol.versionone.MethodInvocationMessageHandler.access$400(MethodInvocationMessageHandler.java:70)
    at org.jboss.as.ejb3.remote.protocol.versionone.MethodInvocationMessageHandler$1.run(MethodInvocationMessageHandler.java:213)
    at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471) [rt.jar:1.7.0_45]
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262) [rt.jar:1.7.0_45]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) [rt.jar:1.7.0_45]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) [rt.jar:1.7.0_45]
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744) [rt.jar:1.7.0_45]
    at org.jboss.threads.JBossThread.run(JBossThread.java:122)
Caused by: org.jboss.remoting3.NotOpenException: Writes closed
    at org.jboss.remoting3.remote.RemoteConnectionChannel.openOutboundMessage(RemoteConnectionChannel.java:112)
    at org.jboss.remoting3.remote.RemoteConnectionChannel.writeMessage(RemoteConnectionChannel.java:301)
    at org.jboss.as.ejb3.remote.protocol.versionone.ChannelAssociation.acquireChannelMessageOutputStream(ChannelAssociation.java:68)
    at org.jboss.as.ejb3.remote.protocol.AbstractMessageHandler.writeException(AbstractMessageHandler.java:100)
    ... 8 more