Explain Processing Predefined Application Protocols
Implementing and swift processing of predefined application protocols is sure to improve performance of server - side applications. As we learned earlier, they are geared for high performance by a twofold mechanism. First, because they are inflexible, a minimal amount of time is spent massaging parameters into communications buffers. Second, they may be efficiently processed by the server application if properly architected.
In fact, even a flexible application- level protocol can be made much more efficient at the server with good coding techniques. Fundamentally, a server component is either aware of its execution as a separate server component or unaware; as is the case with RPCs. Optimizing the execution based on the efficient processing of application-level protocols requires the server components to become very aware. The modification is simple, however. Server processing of application-level protocols can be optimized by passing actual protocol buffers to the server procedure for processing. This removes the overhead of unpacking the protocols, and possibly the wasted memory space of copying the inter- application protocol data into formalized parameters.