More specifically, this is the issue I had:

an integration test is attempting to load the Infinispan DirectoryProvider to run integration tests.

Because of a mistake in my build scripts, the WildFly module was not declaring the dependency to the module providing this implementation, so causing an initialization failure on the directory provider.

However, to figure this out it was (too) complex as the only actually reported error was :

22:21:00,991 ERROR [org.jboss.as.controller.management-operation] (management-handler-thread - 1) WFLYCTL0013: Operation ("read-resource") failed - address: ([
    ("deployment" => "InfinispanModuleMemberRegistrationIT.war"),
    ("subsystem" => "jpa"),
    ("hibernate-persistence-unit" => "InfinispanModuleMemberRegistrationIT.war#primary")
]): org.hibernate.service.UnknownServiceException: Unknown service requested [org.hibernate.stat.spi.StatisticsImplementor]
  at org.hibernate.service.internal.AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.getService(AbstractServiceRegistryImpl.java:210)
  at org.hibernate.service.internal.SessionFactoryServiceRegistryImpl.getService(SessionFactoryServiceRegistryImpl.java:109)
  at org.hibernate.internal.SessionFactoryImpl.getStatistics(SessionFactoryImpl.java:976)
  at org.hibernate.internal.SessionFactoryImpl.getStatistics(SessionFactoryImpl.java:154)
  at org.jboss.as.jpa.hibernate5.management.HibernateEntityCacheStatistics.getBaseStatistics(HibernateEntityCacheStatistics.java:83)
  at org.jboss.as.jpa.hibernate5.management.HibernateEntityCacheStatistics.getDynamicChildrenNames(HibernateEntityCacheStatistics.java:70)
  at org.jboss.as.jpa.management.DynamicManagementStatisticsResource.getChildren(DynamicManagementStatisticsResource.java:204)
  at org.jboss.as.controller.registry.Resource.shallowCopy(Resource.java:200)

I finally figured that the HibernateEntityCacheStatistics would fail because

• statistics had not been initialized yet
• the EntityManagerFactory had been closed (by Search)

Also fixed to make WildFly more robust: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-10413

Ultimately I believe the real problem was that WildFly didn't realize that the deployment had failed. So the deployment status was "in limbo" and the management threads were trying to manage something (e.g. fetching statistics) which was not meant to be managed.

An integration test should verify that:

• indeed a deployment is marked as "failed"
• the real problem is not swallowed but clearly logged among other WildFly errors

N.B. to figure out this wasn't a problem with Wildfly's statistics but just a DirectoryProvider configuration issue I had to use the debugger, as we were not giving any clue.

Also related:

• https://github.com/infinispan/infinispan/pull/5999
• https://github.com/Sanne/infinispan/blob/43e96ae886c1796918747af76195e45aab30151a/integrationtests/as-lucene-directory/src/test/java/org/infinispan/test/integration/as/wildfly/InfinispanModuleMemberRegistrationIT.java