When you use an entity bean cache, in looking at the cache interceptor in the admin console, the metrics, which should show cache hit ratio, number of nodes, number of attributes, etc., you get data the first time you select it, but hitting the refresh button doesn't do anything with updating the data. If you select the data container, and invoke the JMX operation to retrieve the number of nodes that works, and you see the number of nodes changing.

Also, the JMX console does show all the correct data, and refreshing from there updates the data, so JBoss cache is definitely updating its counters, and publishing it, it just doesn't show up in the admin console.