SSL fails with on JBoss EAP with "java.security.InvalidAlgorithmParameterException: the trustAnchors parameter must be non-empty", Empty TrustStore

Issue

• We are seeing this error right after deploying our application:

  ERROR [stderr] (pool-12-thread-1) javax.net.ssl.SSLException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unexpected error: java.security.InvalidAlgorithmParameterException: the trustAnchors parameter must be non-empty
  

  or

  Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unexpected error: java.security.InvalidAlgorithmParameterException:
  the trustAnchors parameter must be non-empty
      at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.<init>(Unknown Source)
      at sun.security.validator.Validator.getInstance(Unknown Source)
      at sun.security.ssl.X509 TrustManagerImpl.getValidator(Unknown Source)
      at sun.security.ssl.X509 TrustManagerImpl.checkTrustedInit(Unknown Source)
      at sun.security.ssl.X509 TrustManagerImpl.checkTrusted(Unknown Source)
      at sun.security.ssl.X509 TrustManagerImpl.checkServerTrusted(Unknown Source)
      at sun.security.ssl.ClientHandshaker.serverCertificate(Unknown Source)
      at sun.security.ssl.ClientHandshaker.processMessage(Unknown Source)
      at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.processLoop(Unknown Source)
      at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.process_record(Unknown Source)
      at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(Unknown Source)
      at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.performInitialHandshake(Unknown Source)
      at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.writeRecord(Unknown Source)
      ... 38 more