The Challenge
In the summer of 1997, Banco del Atlántico (a Mexican bank) asked us to develop a web front end for their remote banking application
Our mission: to create a middleware capable of communicating with a session-oriented COBOL application running in a UNISYS mainframe, which could interface with a stateless web server
Obstacles included a small time frame and the need to interact with old applications, coded in different languages and very poorly documented