Calling Node.toFront() on any javafx SwingComponent or on any Node containing a SwingComponent will result in exception

Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-1" java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.sun.embeddedswing.EmbeddedEventQueue.moveToVisibleAndOnScreen(EmbeddedEventQueue.java:155)
        at com.sun.embeddedswing.EmbeddedEventQueue.beforeDispatch(EmbeddedEventQueue.java:376)
        at com.sun.embeddedswing.EmbeddedEventQueue.dispatchEvent(EmbeddedEventQueue.java:439)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:273)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:183)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:173)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:168)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:160)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:121)

This wasn't a problem on Javafx 1.1