To reproduce this issue follow the steps:

• setup JMS bridge between two WildFly instances
• once JMS bridge is running, login into jboss-cli and stop the bridge
• restart the bridge fro jboss-cli

The following exception appears in the serve log file.

10:12:59,414 INFO [org.hornetq.jms.server] (pool-9-thread-1) HQ121000: Failed to set up JMS bridge connections. Most probably the source or target servers are unavailable. Will retry after a pause of 60,000 ms
10:13:59,416 WARN [org.hornetq.jms.server] (pool-9-thread-1) HQ122010: Failed to connect JMS Bridge: javax.naming.NamingException: JBAS011843: Failed instantiate InitialContextFactory org.jboss.naming.remote.client.InitialContextFactory from classloader ModuleClassLoader for Module "org.jboss.as.controller:main" from local module loader @543a2dec (finder: local module finder @379d0c27 (roots: /Volumes/RedHat/Work/JBoss/EAP/JBoss-6/current/home/modules,/Volumes/RedHat/Work/JBoss/EAP/JBoss-6/current/home/modules/system/layers/base)) [Root exception is java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.jboss.naming.remote.client.InitialContextFactory from [Module "org.jboss.as.controller:main" from local module loader @543a2dec (finder: local module finder @379d0c27 (roots: /Volumes/RedHat/Work/JBoss/EAP/JBoss-6/current/home/modules,/Volumes/RedHat/Work/JBoss/EAP/JBoss-6/current/home/modules/system/layers/base))]]
at org.jboss.as.naming.InitialContext.getDefaultInitCtx(InitialContext.java:126)
at org.jboss.as.naming.InitialContext.init(InitialContext.java:107)
at javax.naming.ldap.InitialLdapContext.<init>(InitialLdapContext.java:153) [rt.jar:1.7.0_75]
at org.jboss.as.naming.InitialContext.<init>(InitialContext.java:98)
at org.jboss.as.naming.InitialContextFactory.getInitialContext(InitialContextFactory.java:44)
at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getInitialContext(NamingManager.java:684) [rt.jar:1.7.0_75]
at javax.naming.InitialContext.getDefaultInitCtx(InitialContext.java:307) [rt.jar:1.7.0_75]
at javax.naming.InitialContext.init(InitialContext.java:242) [rt.jar:1.7.0_75]
at javax.naming.InitialContext.<init>(InitialContext.java:216) [rt.jar:1.7.0_75]
at org.hornetq.jms.bridge.impl.JNDIFactorySupport.createObject(JNDIFactorySupport.java:55)
at org.hornetq.jms.bridge.impl.JNDIDestinationFactory.createDestination(JNDIDestinationFactory.java:40)
at org.hornetq.jms.bridge.impl.JMSBridgeImpl.setupJMSObjects(JMSBridgeImpl.java:1236)
at org.hornetq.jms.bridge.impl.JMSBridgeImpl.setupJMSObjectsWithRetry(JMSBridgeImpl.java:1474)
at org.hornetq.jms.bridge.impl.JMSBridgeImpl.access$2200(JMSBridgeImpl.java:79)
at org.hornetq.jms.bridge.impl.JMSBridgeImpl$FailureHandler.run(JMSBridgeImpl.java:2082)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) [rt.jar:1.7.0_75]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) [rt.jar:1.7.0_75]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) [rt.jar:1.7.0_75]
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.jboss.naming.remote.client.InitialContextFactory from [Module "org.jboss.as.controller:main" from local module loader @543a2dec (finder: local module finder @379d0c27 (roots: /Volumes/RedHat/Work/JBoss/EAP/JBoss-6/current/home/modules,/Volumes/RedHat/Work/JBoss/EAP/JBoss-6/current/home/modules/system/layers/base))]
at org.jboss.modules.ModuleClassLoader.findClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:213) [jboss-modules.jar:1.3.5.Final-redhat-1]
at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClassUnchecked(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:459) [jboss-modules.jar:1.3.5.Final-redhat-1]
at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClassChecked(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:408) [jboss-modules.jar:1.3.5.Final-redhat-1]
at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClass(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:389) [jboss-modules.jar:1.3.5.Final-redhat-1]
at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.loadClass(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:134) [jboss-modules.jar:1.3.5.Final-redhat-1]
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) [rt.jar:1.7.0_75]
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:274) [rt.jar:1.7.0_75]
at org.jboss.as.naming.InitialContext.getDefaultInitCtx(InitialContext.java:121)
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