L'objet tertiaire à travers les âges

With this paper, the authors intended to describe how object-oriented languages have been introduced in the banking industry. It shows that there was a need for prototyping management information systems before the launching of object-oriented industrial solutions. Then, it explains the rapid adoption of object-oriented paradigms by the banking industry, but also, the technical, organisational and human limits they encountered. Then, it shows how objects made their come back particularly thanks to the Internet and the Java language. At last, this paper gives a prospective point of view on banking information systems based on agents establishing a real-time infrastructure.