Charles Stack, Flashline's founder and CEO, brings to bear groundbreaking experience in Internet commerce. He is generally acknowledged as opening the first retail store on the Internet, and he carries that and other experiences into this site for commerce in software components. The Flashline web site is an online marketplace for Java technology-based component products, solutions, content, and services. Offering documented and tested JavaBeans and Enterprise JavaBeans components, auction-based component outsourcing, and quality assurance component testing services, Flashline is a comprehensive resource for Java technology component developers. An Online Software Marketplace Flashline is an online software marketplace where companies can find, evaluate, buy, and download software components that meet their requirements.
Customers can also buy development tools such as editors and debuggers.
In particular, I want to create a marketplace where customers can take advantage of software components that have gone through testing, quality assurance, and certification. Reducing complexity is a big part of this vision. As they've gone from simple to complex, it's been important for them to encapsulate complexity into simple interfaces. Take for example the building industry. It used to be that roof supports were built out of individual pieces of lumber.