Thanks for the update. Actually I am working on WFST so any how I need to
have WFS layer. Please share if you have some good tips to make it more
robust.
Do you mean WFS-T (with transactions), or WFST (with time)? I am lost as to why you be needing WFS-T for just displaying data. If you are using WFST, then use WMST for the display purposes and stick with WFS for query.

If there really is no way to use WMS, then you have a problem - if your application has more than say 500 geometry points, then your application is going to be slow.

Obviously, the way to reduce time is minimize the traffic but can you restrict the user to only looking at very small amount of geometry at time? If so, then I still think that do not want a WFS layer. A strategy could look like this:

myWFSdata = new OpenLayers.Layer.Vector("My data",{});

wfsProtocol = new OpenLayers.Protocol.WFS.v1_1_0({
                    url: yourURL,
                    featurePrefix:yourPrefix,
                    featureType: yourFeaturetype,
                    srsName: yourSRS
                });

A handler to fetch data (eg on map moveto), could be:
function (e) {
   var myfilter = new OpenLayers.Filter.Spatial({
                                type: OpenLayers.Filter.Spatial.BBox
                                    etc
                            });
 wfsprotocol.read({
                                   filter:myFilter,
                                    callback:processQuery,
                                    scope:strategy
 });
};

The processQuery would do something like:
  function processQuery(request) {
   myWFSdata.destroyFeatures();
  myWFSdata.addFeatures(request.features);
}


I'd want to be really sure that there was no way to use WMS before I embarked on this though.






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