How to enable TLS 1.2 for Java 7 on JBoss EAP 6?

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Issue

We are using JBoss Application Server 6.4.7 with Java 7v79. We are trying to enable TLS 1.2 but we receive the following stack trace:

An error occured creating document at the external provider.: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Can't overwrite cause with javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Connection has been shutdown: javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Received fatal alert: protocol_version
        at java.lang.Throwable.initCause(Throwable.java:456) [rt.jar:1.7.0_79]
...
Caused by: javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Received fatal alert: protocol_version
        at sun.security.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Alerts.java:208) [jsse.jar:1.7.0_79]

Environment

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 6.x

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