@oluwasayo: I cannot use another application server, if it doesn't work on WebSphere with JEE 6, it is a deal breaker. The class is empty and annotated with @Stateless, nothing special. I cannot copy the stack trace because it is on a remote machine :(.
com.ibm.ws.container.service.metadata.MetaDataException: java.lang.StackOverflowError
I was hoping that someone else might have tried this, at least I knew if it works or not