jconsole fails if trying to connect to a standalone EAP instance running with offset ports

If JBoss AS7/8 is started using port-offset as following:

ie. with -Djboss.socket.binding.port-offset=100

Then While connecting to it using "jconsole.sh" as a Local Process it throws the following Exception:

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Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.RuntimeException: Error connecting to JBoss AS.
at org.jboss.as.cli.gui.JConsoleCLIPlugin.getTabs(JConsoleCLIPlugin.java:80)
at sun.tools.jconsole.VMPanel.createPluginTabs(VMPanel.java:641)
at sun.tools.jconsole.VMPanel.propertyChange(VMPanel.java:315)
at java.beans.PropertyChangeSupport.firePropertyChange(PropertyChangeSupport.java:339)
at javax.swing.event.SwingPropertyChangeSupport.firePropertyChange(SwingPropertyChangeSupport.java:75)
at javax.swing.event.SwingPropertyChangeSupport$1.run(SwingPropertyChangeSupport.java:80)
at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:209)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:646)
at java.awt.EventQueue.access$000(EventQueue.java:84)
at java.awt.EventQueue$1.run(EventQueue.java:607)
at java.awt.EventQueue$1.run(EventQueue.java:605)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.AccessControlContext$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(AccessControlContext.java:87)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:616)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:269)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:184)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:174)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:169)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:161)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:122)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.jboss.as.cli.gui.JConsoleCLIPlugin.connectCommandContext(JConsoleCLIPlugin.java:109)
at org.jboss.as.cli.gui.JConsoleCLIPlugin.getTabs(JConsoleCLIPlugin.java:77)
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And the Code "org.jboss.as.cli.gui.JConsoleCLIPlugin" classes Line 109 throws NullPointerException, Because "cliGuiCtx" object is null and not initialized earlier:

109 JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(cliGuiCtx.getMainWindow(), message);