Seeing "WARNING: An illegal reflective access operation has occurred" by SSLDefinitions message in JBoss EAP 7 log

Environment

• Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
  • 7

Issue

I am getting warnings regarding elytron:

WARNING: An illegal reflective access operation has occurred
WARNING: Illegal reflective access by org.wildfly.extension.elytron.SSLDefinitions (jar:file:/opt/deploy/jboss/jbosseap7/modules/system/layers/base/org/wildfly/extension/elytron/main/wildfly-elytron-integration-6.0.21.Final-redhat-00001.jar!/) to method com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Provider.isFIPS()
WARNING: Please consider reporting this to the maintainers of org.wildfly.extension.elytron.SSLDefinitions
WARNING: Use --illegal-access=warn to enable warnings of further illegal reflective access operations
WARNING: All illegal access operations will be denied in a future release

Resolution

This warning is harmless and can be safely ignored.

The log can be suppressed with the JVM option --illegal-access=deny.

This log no longer occurs in EAP 7.4 Update 14+ This content is not included.JBEAP-18717

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