I had similar problem but on WAS 7.0 and fixed it by simply adding EJB remote interface class ty my application client project. There was no compilation error because application client saw the remote interface via Java EE module dependency, however I had to create this interface once more in my application client because otherwise its methods where absent in dinamically generated stubs.
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