Methods for a treatment of cached objects are described. In one embodiment, management of a region of a cache is configured with an eviction policy plug-in and a storage plug-in. The eviction policy plug-in includes code to evict an object that is cached in the region of cache. The storage plug-in includes code to execute a function involving an object manipulation function that gets a first object located within the region of cache, and an attribute manipulation function that gets a specific attribute for the first object from within the region of cache.