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Last few months we are developing a portal for 3rd largest bank in Europe. Unique visitor of the bank grows more than 1 million visitor in a day. The main non functional requirements of the project is the high availability of the portal and giving high through output. One of the main feature of the portal is to giving user to customize their pages with widgets and provide different services for targeted auditory. After a long discussion and analysis, bank decided to use java based engine to build up the portal and we have got the following stack: 1) Java 1.7_47 2) IBM WEBSphere 8.5 as Application server 3) Nginx as web server 4) Alteon as load balancer 5) Oracle 11gR2 as DataBase 6) SOLR for content search Main challenge for us to supported legacy browser such as IE8, opera 12 e.t.c and one portal for all device (desktop, smart phone and tablet pc). Java based portal engine generated a lot of java script which didn't give us very good performance. For these above reasons we