I worked at a bank in 1998 porting applications from VB6 to Java, and not they weren't browsers applets, there were servlets which were available since mid 1997

I worked at a bank in 1998 porting applications from VB6 to Java, and not they weren't browsers applets, there were servlets which were available since mid 1997. There are still a niche for C++ in banks (i.e transactional server applications) but pretty much all the business logic applications (that counts for 80% of the code of most banks) were starting turned to Java by that time