NPE when setting 'messageCounterHistoryDayLimit' prop on JMS Topics

Setting the "MessageCounterHistoryDayLimit" in a topic deployment descriptor triggers an NPE:

<attribute name="MessageCounterHistoryDayLimit">10</attribute>

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.jboss.jms.server.destination.ManagedTopic.getMessageCounters(ManagedTopic.java:159)
at org.jboss.jms.server.destination.ManagedTopic.setMessageCounterHistoryDayLimit(ManagedTopic.java:191)

Also See https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBAS-6721?focusedCommentId=12460246#action_12460246 .

The problem is that the property is only expected to be set at runtime, AFTER the topic has started:

Collection queues = serverPeer.getPostOfficeInstance().getQueuesForCondition(new JMSCondition(false, name), true);