You are hitting the issue discussed at http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBCACHE-1047. If you were using code built from the latest HEAD you could: ... | CacheJmxWrapper wrapper = new CacheJmxWrapper(myCache); | wrapper.setManageCacheLifecycle(true); | JmxUtil.registerCacheMBean(mBeanServer, wrapper, mBeanNameStr); | ... This thread though makes me realize that that's still pretty broken, although it should work fine for your use case. See http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBCACHE-1058 for how discussion of how it's still broken. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4045925#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...