2225342 - Container [developmentserver] is not available

The deployment fails with an error similar to this:

Deployment of archive SCA_NAME.SCA --> APPNAME.sda for component sap.com/APPNAME aborted
Detailed message: 1. ASJ.dpl_ds.006193 Operation [deploy] of [E:\usr\sap\SID\SUM\sdt\system\SID\INSTANCE\j2ee\cluster\server0\.\temp\tc~bl~deploy_controller\archives\61\SCA_NAME_0-20007527_SCA1442323444344\DEPLOYARCHIVES\APPNAME.sda] failed
-> Exception while [validating application sap.com/APPNAME.
The Deploy Service called the following containers:
[developmentserver]
to process it but none of them returned information about deployed components.
The registered containers at this moment were [KMContentHandler, z_com.sap.security.policy-configurations, utl_handler, developmentserver, Monitoring Configurator, component.info_handler, ConfigFwkContainer, servlet_jsp, connector, classification_handler, CTCContainer, MOBILE, PortalRuntimeContainer, JDBCConnector, Content Container, dbcontentcontainer, ecm_content_handler, scheduler~container, src.zip_handler, PCD Content Deployment Handler, ConfigFwkContentHandler, ConfigurationsContainer, orpersistence, appclient, JMSConnector, Cluster File System, Cache Configuration Upload, com.sap.security.ume, SCA Composites Container, metamodelrepository, eden_handler, textcontainer, uddi_handler, MigrationContainer, webservices_container, com.sap.security.login-modules, dbschemacontainer, com.sap.security.policy-configurations, EJBContainer, MDRContainer, SEAHandler, SAP-EU-GP, app_libraries_container].
Possible reason:
An AS Java service, which is providing a container and is required for deployment, is stopped or not deployed.
Hint:
Contact the owners of application sap.com/APPNAME to point you to
the containers that need to be available and started on the system for successful deployment.].
See Deploy Controller log E:\usr\sap\SID\SUM\sdt\log\SWITCH\deploy_api.0.log for details.

(The error message refers the developmentserver container although it is listed among the available containers.)

As of AS-JAVA release 7.1

KBA , BC-JAS-COR , Enterprise Runtime, Core J2EE Framework , BC-UPG-TLS-TLJ , Upgrade tools for Java , Problem