[bhaak]

I have some sketchy memories for which I have trouble filling in the blanks about an internship at a bank where I wrote a Java POC for getting data from one of the other departments.

It must have been in 1998 or in 1999 and I was brought in to solve a specific problem, only to find out that the higher ups had no idea that there was a problem and there was no documentation. Eventually I wrote a specification and that POC.

While doing that, I learned that the Java CORBA implementation they used at that time was not yet able to talk to the C++ CORBA implementation from the same software producer. How is that even possible? That's the whole raison d'être of CORBA.

As I said I can't get the details together. I'm pretty sure the hardware was Sun but I'm not sure who made the CORBA implementations. Possibly IBM? It would fit the landscape.