Patent ID: 8341280

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a message having coded therein information identifying a desired pluggable transport mechanism for a request and/or a response; activating one of a plurality of pluggable protocol processors compatible with the received message; processing, by use of a processor, a protocol-specific portion of the received message using the activated pluggable protocol processor; processing, by use of the processor, a protocol-agnostic portion of the received message using a message processing pipeline, the message processing pipeline including a plurality of stages for processing the protocol-agnostic portion of the received message, the protocol-specific portion and the protocol-agnostic portion being portions of the same received message; dispatching the processed message to a dispatcher; determining if the desired pluggable transport mechanism is available; activating the desired pluggable transport mechanism, if the desired pluggable transport mechanism is available; and transporting the processed message via the desired pluggable transport mechanism.