Adding an SSL server-identity causes NPE (when allow-resource-service-restart header is true). It's a regression - this works in 6.2.x /core-service=management/security-realm=SSLRealm:add /core-service=management/security-realm=SSLRealm/server-identity=ssl:add(keystore-password=mykeystore, keystore-path=/tmp/mykeystore.jks) {allow-resource-service-restart=true} result: { "outcome" => "failed", "failure-description" => "JBAS014749: Operation handler failed: null", "rolled-back" => true } EAP console contains: 12:05:16,016 ERROR [org.jboss.as.controller.management-operation] (management-handler-thread - 1) JBAS014612: Operation ("add") failed - address: ([ ("core-service" => "management"), ("security-realm" => "SSLRealm2"), ("server-identity" => "ssl") ]): java.lang.NullPointerException at org.jboss.as.domain.management.security.SecurityRealmAddHandler.addSSLServices(SecurityRealmAddHandler.java:538) [jboss-as-domain-management-7.4.0.Final-redhat-2.jar:7.4.0.Final-redhat-2] at org.jboss.as.domain.management.security.SecurityRealmAddHandler.installServices(SecurityRealmAddHandler.java:186) [jboss-as-domain-management-7.4.0.Final-redhat-2.jar:7.4.0.Final-redhat-2] at org.jboss.as.domain.management.security.SecurityRealmParentRestartHandler.recreateParentService(SecurityRealmParentRestartHandler.java:65) [jboss-as-domain-management-7.4.0.Final-redhat-2.jar:7.4.0.Final-redhat-2] at org.jboss.as.controller.RestartParentResourceHandlerBase$1.execute(RestartParentResourceHandlerBase.java:73) [jboss-as-controller-7.4.0.Final-redhat-2.jar:7.4.0.Final-redhat-2] at org.jboss.as.controller.AbstractOperationContext.executeStep(AbstractOperationContext.java:601) [jboss-as-controller-7.4.0.Final-redhat-2.jar:7.4.0.Final-redhat-2] at org.jboss.as.controller.AbstractOperationContext.doCompleteStep(AbstractOperationContext.java:479) [jboss-as-controller-7.4.0.Final-redhat-2.jar:7.4.0.Final-redhat-2] at org.jboss.as.controller.AbstractOperationContext.completeStepInternal(AbstractOperationContext.java:283) [jboss-as-controller-7.4.0.Final-redhat-2.jar:7.4.0.Final-redhat-2] at org.jboss.as.controller.AbstractOperationContext.executeOperation(AbstractOperationContext.java:278) [jboss-as-controller-7.4.0.Final-redhat-2.jar:7.4.0.Final-redhat-2] at org.jboss.as.controller.ModelControllerImpl.internalExecute(ModelControllerImpl.java:230) [jboss-as-controller-7.4.0.Final-redhat-2.jar:7.4.0.Final-redhat-2] at org.jboss.as.controller.ModelControllerImpl.execute(ModelControllerImpl.java:136) [jboss-as-controller-7.4.0.Final-redhat-2.jar:7.4.0.Final-redhat-2] at org.jboss.as.controller.remote.ModelControllerClientOperationHandler$ExecuteRequestHandler.doExecute(ModelControllerClientOperationHandler.java:173) [jboss-as-controller-7.4.0.Final-redhat-2.jar:7.4.0.Final-redhat-2] at org.jboss.as.controller.remote.ModelControllerClientOperationHandler$ExecuteRequestHandler.access$300(ModelControllerClientOperationHandler.java:105) [jboss-as-controller-7.4.0.Final-redhat-2.jar:7.4.0.Final-redhat-2] at org.jboss.as.controller.remote.ModelControllerClientOperationHandler$ExecuteRequestHandler$1$1.run(ModelControllerClientOperationHandler.java:125) [jboss-as-controller-7.4.0.Final-redhat-2.jar:7.4.0.Final-redhat-2] at org.jboss.as.controller.remote.ModelControllerClientOperationHandler$ExecuteRequestHandler$1$1.run(ModelControllerClientOperationHandler.java:121) [jboss-as-controller-7.4.0.Final-redhat-2.jar:7.4.0.Final-redhat-2] at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) [rt.jar:1.7.0_45] at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:415) [rt.jar:1.7.0_45] at org.jboss.as.controller.AccessAuditContext.doAs(AccessAuditContext.java:94) [jboss-as-controller-7.4.0.Final-redhat-2.jar:7.4.0.Final-redhat-2] at org.jboss.as.controller.remote.ModelControllerClientOperationHandler$ExecuteRequestHandler$1.execute(ModelControllerClientOperationHandler.java:121) [jboss-as-controller-7.4.0.Final-redhat-2.jar:7.4.0.Final-redhat-2] at org.jboss.as.protocol.mgmt.AbstractMessageHandler$2$1.doExecute(AbstractMessageHandler.java:283) [jboss-as-protocol-7.4.0.Final-redhat-2.jar:7.4.0.Final-redhat-2] at org.jboss.as.protocol.mgmt.AbstractMessageHandler$AsyncTaskRunner.run(AbstractMessageHandler.java:504) [jboss-as-protocol-7.4.0.Final-redhat-2.jar:7.4.0.Final-redhat-2] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) [rt.jar:1.7.0_45] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) [rt.jar:1.7.0_45] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744) [rt.jar:1.7.0_45] at org.jboss.threads.JBossThread.run(JBossThread.java:122) [jboss-threads-2.1.1.Final-redhat-1.jar:2.1.1.Final-redhat-1]