Ability to create new LocalLBPool without any members through iControl Java API

I spent a bit more time on this to see what's going on with that non descriptive 500 internal server error message. I enabled trace level logging of iControl as explained here https://devcentral.f5.com/questions/icontrol-logging and after the httpd restart, saw these initial logs from the admin UI:

Fri Nov 29 12:31:38 PST 2013    notice  local/bigip     root        -bash ==> /usr/bin/bigstart restart httpd
Fri Nov 29 12:31:40 PST 2013    debug   local/bigip     iControlPortal.cgi[1796]        icontrol_portal:iControl SOAP Portal starting ...

which make sense because we had just restarted the httpd server and as a result the iControl SOAP portal.

I then ran my test with invokes the Java API that I noted in my question earlier and saw these logs from the admin UI:

Fri Nov 29 12:38:13 PST 2013    debug   local/bigip     iControlPortal.cgi[1796]        icontrol_portal:NewPoolFromTest-1385786661845LB_METHOD_FASTEST_APP_RESPONSE
Fri Nov 29 12:38:13 PST 2013    debug   local/bigip     iControlPortal.cgi[1796]        LocalLB:+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Fri Nov 29 12:38:13 PST 2013    debug   local/bigip     iControlPortal.cgi[1796]        LocalLB:Pool::create ( ) called by user "admin"
Fri Nov 29 12:38:13 PST 2013    debug   local/bigip     iControlPortal.cgi[1796]        LocalLB: [0] Pool name: NewPoolFromTest-1385786661845, LB method: 11
Fri Nov 29 12:38:13 PST 2013    debug   local/bigip     iControlPortal.cgi[1994]        icontrol_portal:iControl SOAP Portal starting ... 

Most of it looks fine except that last log message which says:

Fri Nov 29 12:38:13 PST 2013 debug local/bigip iControlPortal.cgi[1994] icontrol_portal:iControl SOAP Portal starting ...

It looks like that pool creation method call is ending up (crashing?) restarting the iControl SOAP protal. Did I read this correct? If so, I would think that this is perhaps a bug in the iControl server side thing?

Anyone has any inputs on this?