diff --git a/qqq-backend-core/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
similarity index 100%
rename from qqq-backend-core/.circleci/config.yml
rename to .circleci/config.yml
diff --git a/qqq-backend-core/.circleci/mvn-settings.xml b/.circleci/mvn-settings.xml
similarity index 100%
rename from qqq-backend-core/.circleci/mvn-settings.xml
rename to .circleci/mvn-settings.xml
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2c7054c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+target/
+*.iml
+.env
+
+
+#############################################
+## Original contents from github template: ##
+#############################################
+# Compiled class file
+*.class
+
+# Log file
+*.log
+
+# BlueJ files
+*.ctxt
+
+# Mobile Tools for Java (J2ME)
+.mtj.tmp/
+
+# Package Files #
+*.jar
+*.war
+*.nar
+*.ear
+*.zip
+*.tar.gz
+*.rar
+
+# virtual machine crash logs, see http://www.java.com/en/download/help/error_hotspot.xml
+hs_err_pid*
+.DS_Store
diff --git a/.idea/.gitignore b/.idea/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..13566b81
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.idea/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# Default ignored files
+/shelf/
+/workspace.xml
+# Editor-based HTTP Client requests
+/httpRequests/
+# Datasource local storage ignored files
+/dataSources/
+/dataSources.local.xml
diff --git a/.idea/checkstyle-idea.xml b/.idea/checkstyle-idea.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e2be48c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.idea/checkstyle-idea.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project version="4">
+  <component name="CheckStyle-IDEA">
+    <option name="configuration">
+      <map>
+        <entry key="checkstyle-version" value="9.0" />
+        <entry key="copy-libs" value="false" />
+        <entry key="location-0" value="BUNDLED:(bundled):Sun Checks" />
+        <entry key="location-1" value="BUNDLED:(bundled):Google Checks" />
+        <entry key="scan-before-checkin" value="false" />
+        <entry key="scanscope" value="JavaOnly" />
+        <entry key="suppress-errors" value="false" />
+      </map>
+    </option>
+  </component>
+</project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.idea/compiler.xml b/.idea/compiler.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1624ce59
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.idea/compiler.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project version="4">
+  <component name="CompilerConfiguration">
+    <annotationProcessing>
+      <profile name="Maven default annotation processors profile" enabled="true">
+        <sourceOutputDir name="target/generated-sources/annotations" />
+        <sourceTestOutputDir name="target/generated-test-sources/test-annotations" />
+        <outputRelativeToContentRoot value="true" />
+        <module name="qqq-backend-module-rdbms" />
+        <module name="qqq-middleware-picocli" />
+        <module name="qqq-backend-module-filesystem" />
+        <module name="qqq-backend-core" />
+        <module name="qqq-middleware-javalin" />
+        <module name="qqq-sample-project" />
+      </profile>
+    </annotationProcessing>
+  </component>
+  <component name="JavacSettings">
+    <option name="ADDITIONAL_OPTIONS_OVERRIDE">
+      <module name="qqq-backend-core" options="-Xlint:unchecked" />
+      <module name="qqq-backend-module-filesystem" options="-Xlint:unchecked" />
+      <module name="qqq-backend-module-rdbms" options="-Xlint:unchecked" />
+      <module name="qqq-middleware-javalin" options="-Xlint:unchecked" />
+      <module name="qqq-middleware-picocli" options="-Xlint:unchecked" />
+      <module name="qqq-sample-project" options="-Xlint:unchecked" />
+    </option>
+  </component>
+</project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.idea/encodings.xml b/.idea/encodings.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5432384c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.idea/encodings.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project version="4">
+  <component name="Encoding">
+    <file url="file://$PROJECT_DIR$/qqq-backend-core/src/main/java" charset="UTF-8" />
+    <file url="file://$PROJECT_DIR$/qqq-backend-core/src/main/resources" charset="UTF-8" />
+    <file url="file://$PROJECT_DIR$/qqq-backend-module-filesystem/src/main/java" charset="UTF-8" />
+    <file url="file://$PROJECT_DIR$/qqq-backend-module-filesystem/src/main/resources" charset="UTF-8" />
+    <file url="file://$PROJECT_DIR$/qqq-backend-module-rdbms/src/main/java" charset="UTF-8" />
+    <file url="file://$PROJECT_DIR$/qqq-backend-module-rdbms/src/main/resources" charset="UTF-8" />
+    <file url="file://$PROJECT_DIR$/qqq-middleware-javalin/src/main/java" charset="UTF-8" />
+    <file url="file://$PROJECT_DIR$/qqq-middleware-javalin/src/main/resources" charset="UTF-8" />
+    <file url="file://$PROJECT_DIR$/qqq-middleware-picocli/src/main/java" charset="UTF-8" />
+    <file url="file://$PROJECT_DIR$/qqq-middleware-picocli/src/main/resources" charset="UTF-8" />
+    <file url="file://$PROJECT_DIR$/qqq-sample-project/src/main/java" charset="UTF-8" />
+    <file url="file://$PROJECT_DIR$/qqq-sample-project/src/main/resources" charset="UTF-8" />
+    <file url="file://$PROJECT_DIR$/src/main/java" charset="UTF-8" />
+    <file url="file://$PROJECT_DIR$/src/main/resources" charset="UTF-8" />
+  </component>
+</project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.idea/jarRepositories.xml b/.idea/jarRepositories.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ed4393b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.idea/jarRepositories.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project version="4">
+  <component name="RemoteRepositoriesConfiguration">
+    <remote-repository>
+      <option name="id" value="github-qqq-maven-registry" />
+      <option name="name" value="GitHub QQQ Maven Registry" />
+      <option name="url" value="https://maven.pkg.github.com/Kingsrook/qqq-maven-registry" />
+    </remote-repository>
+    <remote-repository>
+      <option name="id" value="central" />
+      <option name="name" value="Central Repository" />
+      <option name="url" value="https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2" />
+    </remote-repository>
+    <remote-repository>
+      <option name="id" value="central" />
+      <option name="name" value="Maven Central repository" />
+      <option name="url" value="https://repo1.maven.org/maven2" />
+    </remote-repository>
+    <remote-repository>
+      <option name="id" value="jboss.community" />
+      <option name="name" value="JBoss Community repository" />
+      <option name="url" value="https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/repositories/public/" />
+    </remote-repository>
+  </component>
+</project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.idea/misc.xml b/.idea/misc.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..67e1e611
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.idea/misc.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project version="4">
+  <component name="ExternalStorageConfigurationManager" enabled="true" />
+  <component name="MavenProjectsManager">
+    <option name="originalFiles">
+      <list>
+        <option value="$PROJECT_DIR$/pom.xml" />
+      </list>
+    </option>
+  </component>
+  <component name="ProjectRootManager" version="2" languageLevel="JDK_17" default="true" project-jdk-name="17" project-jdk-type="JavaSDK" />
+</project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.idea/vcs.xml b/.idea/vcs.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..35eb1ddf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.idea/vcs.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project version="4">
+  <component name="VcsDirectoryMappings">
+    <mapping directory="" vcs="Git" />
+  </component>
+</project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..af84786b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+# qqq
+
+This is the top-level/parent project of qqq.
+
+QQQ is a Low-code Application Framework for Engineers.
+
+## Artifacts
+QQQ can be used with a single bundle or smaller fine grained jars.
+The bundle contains all of the sub-jars.  It is named:
+
+```qqq-${version}.jar```
+
+You can also use fine grained jars:
+- `qqq-backend-core`: The core module.  Useful if you're developing other modules.
+- `qqq-backend-module-rdbms`: Backend module for working with Relational Databases.
+- `qqq-backend-module-filesystem`: Backend module for working with Filesystems (including AWS S3).
+- `qqq-middleware-javalin`: Middleware http server.  Procivdes REST API, and/or backing for a web frotnend.
+- `qqq-middleware-picocli`: Middleware (actually, a front-end, innint?) Command Line interface.
+
+## License
+QQQ - Low-code Application Framework for Engineers. \
+Copyright (C) 2022.  Kingsrook, LLC \
+651 N Broad St Ste 205 # 6917 | Middletown DE 19709 | United States \
+contact@kingsrook.com | https://github.com/Kingsrook/
+
+This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
+published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
+License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
diff --git a/qqq-backend-core/checkstyle.xml b/checkstyle.xml
similarity index 100%
rename from qqq-backend-core/checkstyle.xml
rename to checkstyle.xml
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0e78e1d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,263 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+  ~ QQQ - Low-code Application Framework for Engineers.
+  ~ Copyright (C) 2021-2022.  Kingsrook, LLC
+  ~ 651 N Broad St Ste 205 # 6917 | Middletown DE 19709 | United States
+  ~ contact@kingsrook.com
+  ~ https://github.com/Kingsrook/
+  ~
+  ~ This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+  ~ it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
+  ~ published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
+  ~ License, or (at your option) any later version.
+  ~
+  ~ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+  ~ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+  ~ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+  ~ GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+  ~
+  ~ You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+  ~ along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+  -->
+
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+   <groupId>com.kingsrook.qqq</groupId>
+   <artifactId>qqq-parent-project</artifactId>
+   <version>${revision}</version>
+   <packaging>pom</packaging>
+
+   <modules>
+      <module>qqq-backend-core</module>
+      <module>qqq-backend-module-rdbms</module>
+      <module>qqq-backend-module-filesystem</module>
+      <module>qqq-middleware-picocli</module>
+      <module>qqq-middleware-javalin</module>
+      <module>qqq-sample-project</module>
+   </modules>
+
+   <properties>
+      <revision>0.3.0-SNAPSHOT</revision>
+
+      <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+      <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
+      <maven.compiler.source>17</maven.compiler.source>
+      <maven.compiler.target>17</maven.compiler.target>
+      <maven.compiler.showDeprecation>true</maven.compiler.showDeprecation>
+      <maven.compiler.showWarnings>true</maven.compiler.showWarnings>
+      <coverage.haltOnFailure>true</coverage.haltOnFailure>
+      <coverage.instructionCoveredRatioMinimum>0.80</coverage.instructionCoveredRatioMinimum>
+   </properties>
+
+   <dependencyManagement>
+      <dependencies>
+         <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+            <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
+            <version>3.1.2</version>
+         </dependency>
+         <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
+            <artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
+            <version>2.17.1</version>
+         </dependency>
+         <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
+            <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
+            <version>2.17.1</version>
+         </dependency>
+         <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
+            <artifactId>junit-jupiter-engine</artifactId>
+            <version>5.8.1</version>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+         </dependency>
+         <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.assertj</groupId>
+            <artifactId>assertj-core</artifactId>
+            <version>3.23.1</version>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+         </dependency>
+       </dependencies>
+   </dependencyManagement>
+
+   <build>
+      <plugins>
+         <!-- plugins specifically for this module -->
+         <!-- none at this time -->
+
+         <!-- Common plugins for all qqq modules -->
+         <plugin>
+            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+            <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+            <version>3.8.1</version>
+            <configuration>
+               <compilerArgument>-Xlint:unchecked</compilerArgument>
+            </configuration>
+         </plugin>
+         <plugin>
+            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+            <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
+            <version>3.0.0-M5</version>
+            <configuration>
+               <!-- Sets the VM argument line used when integration tests are run. -->
+               <argLine>@{jaCoCoArgLine}</argLine>
+            </configuration>
+         </plugin>
+         <plugin>
+            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+            <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
+            <version>3.1.2</version>
+            <dependencies>
+               <dependency>
+                  <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
+                  <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
+                  <version>9.0</version>
+               </dependency>
+            </dependencies>
+            <executions>
+               <execution>
+                  <id>validate</id>
+                  <phase>validate</phase>
+                  <configuration>
+                     <configLocation>checkstyle.xml</configLocation>
+                     <!-- <suppressionsLocation>checkstyle-suppressions.xml</suppressionsLocation> -->
+                     <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
+                     <consoleOutput>true</consoleOutput>
+                     <failsOnError>false</failsOnError>
+                     <failOnViolation>true</failOnViolation>
+                     <violationSeverity>warning</violationSeverity>
+                     <excludes>**/target/generated-sources/*.*</excludes>
+                     <!-- <linkXRef>false</linkXRef> -->
+                  </configuration>
+                  <goals>
+                     <goal>check</goal>
+                  </goals>
+               </execution>
+            </executions>
+         </plugin>
+         <plugin>
+            <groupId>com.amashchenko.maven.plugin</groupId>
+            <artifactId>gitflow-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+            <version>1.18.0</version>
+            <configuration>
+               <gitFlowConfig>
+                  <productionBranch>main</productionBranch>
+                  <developmentBranch>dev</developmentBranch>
+                  <versionTagPrefix>version-</versionTagPrefix>
+               </gitFlowConfig>
+               <skipFeatureVersion>true</skipFeatureVersion> <!-- Keep feature names out of versions -->
+               <postReleaseGoals>install</postReleaseGoals>  <!-- Let CI run deploys -->
+               <commitDevelopmentVersionAtStart>true</commitDevelopmentVersionAtStart>
+               <versionDigitToIncrement>1</versionDigitToIncrement> <!-- In general, we update the minor -->
+            </configuration>
+         </plugin>
+         <plugin>
+            <groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+            <version>0.8.8</version>
+            <executions>
+               <execution>
+                  <id>pre-unit-test</id>
+                  <goals>
+                     <goal>prepare-agent</goal>
+                  </goals>
+                  <configuration>
+                     <propertyName>jaCoCoArgLine</propertyName>
+                  </configuration>
+               </execution>
+               <execution>
+                  <id>unit-test-check</id>
+                  <goals>
+                     <goal>check</goal>
+                  </goals>
+                  <configuration>
+                     <!-- Gives us the ability to pass a parameter to not fail due to coverage E.g. -Dcoverage.haltOnFailure=false -->
+                     <haltOnFailure>${coverage.haltOnFailure}</haltOnFailure>
+                     <rules>
+                        <rule>
+                           <element>BUNDLE</element>
+                           <limits>
+                              <limit>
+                                 <counter>INSTRUCTION</counter>
+                                 <value>COVEREDRATIO</value>
+                                 <minimum>${coverage.instructionCoveredRatioMinimum}</minimum>
+                              </limit>
+                           </limits>
+                        </rule>
+                     </rules>
+                  </configuration>
+               </execution>
+               <execution>
+                  <id>post-unit-test</id>
+                  <phase>verify</phase>
+                  <goals>
+                     <goal>report</goal>
+                  </goals>
+               </execution>
+            </executions>
+         </plugin>
+         <plugin>
+            <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+            <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
+            <version>3.0.0</version>
+            <executions>
+               <execution>
+                  <id>test-coverage-summary</id>
+                  <phase>verify</phase>
+                  <goals>
+                     <goal>exec</goal>
+                  </goals>
+                  <configuration>
+                     <executable>sh</executable>
+                     <arguments>
+                        <argument>-c</argument>
+                        <argument>
+                           <![CDATA[
+if [ ! -e target/site/jacoco/index.html ]; then
+   echo "No jacoco coverage report here.";
+   exit;
+fi
+
+echo
+echo "Jacoco coverage summary report:"
+echo "   See also target/site/jacoco/index.html"
+echo "   and https://www.jacoco.org/jacoco/trunk/doc/counters.html"
+echo "------------------------------------------------------------"
+which xpath > /dev/null 2>&1
+if [ "$?" == "0" ]; then
+   echo "Element\nInstructions Missed\nInstruction Coverage\nBranches Missed\nBranch Coverage\nComplexity Missed\nComplexity Hit\nLines Missed\nLines Hit\nMethods Missed\nMethods Hit\nClasses Missed\nClasses Hit\n" > /tmp/$$.headers
+   xpath -q -e '/html/body/table/tfoot/tr[1]/td/text()' target/site/jacoco/index.html > /tmp/$$.values
+   paste /tmp/$$.headers /tmp/$$.values | tail +2 | awk -v FS='\t' '{printf("%-20s %s\n",$1,$2)}'
+   rm /tmp/$$.headers /tmp/$$.values
+else
+   echo "xpath is not installed.  Jacoco coverage summary will not be produced here..";
+fi
+                           ]]>
+                        </argument>
+                     </arguments>
+                  </configuration>
+               </execution>
+            </executions>
+         </plugin>
+      </plugins>
+   </build>
+
+   <repositories>
+      <repository>
+         <id>github-qqq-maven-registry</id>
+         <name>GitHub QQQ Maven Registry</name>
+         <url>https://maven.pkg.github.com/Kingsrook/qqq-maven-registry</url>
+      </repository>
+   </repositories>
+
+   <distributionManagement>
+      <repository>
+         <id>github-qqq-maven-registry</id>
+         <name>GitHub QQQ Maven Registry</name>
+         <url>https://maven.pkg.github.com/Kingsrook/qqq-maven-registry</url>
+      </repository>
+   </distributionManagement>
+
+</project>
diff --git a/qqq-backend-core/pom.xml b/qqq-backend-core/pom.xml
index 1088fd68..268945bc 100644
--- a/qqq-backend-core/pom.xml
+++ b/qqq-backend-core/pom.xml
@@ -23,29 +23,17 @@
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
-   <groupId>com.kingsrook.qqq</groupId>
    <artifactId>qqq-backend-core</artifactId>
-   <version>0.3.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
 
-   <scm>
-     <connection>scm:git:git@github.com:Kingsrook/qqq-backend-core.git</connection>
-     <developerConnection>scm:git:git@github.com:Kingsrook/qqq-backend-core.git</developerConnection>
-     <tag>HEAD</tag>
-   </scm>
+   <parent>
+      <groupId>com.kingsrook.qqq</groupId>
+      <artifactId>qqq-parent-project</artifactId>
+      <version>${revision}</version>
+   </parent>
 
    <properties>
       <!-- props specifically to this module -->
-      <!-- none at this time -->
-
-      <!-- Common props for all qqq modules -->
-      <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-      <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
-      <maven.compiler.source>17</maven.compiler.source>
-      <maven.compiler.target>17</maven.compiler.target>
-      <maven.compiler.showDeprecation>true</maven.compiler.showDeprecation>
-      <maven.compiler.showWarnings>true</maven.compiler.showWarnings>
-      <coverage.haltOnFailure>true</coverage.haltOnFailure>
-      <coverage.instructionCoveredRatioMinimum>0.80</coverage.instructionCoveredRatioMinimum>
+      <!-- noe at this time -->
    </properties>
 
    <dependencies>
@@ -53,11 +41,6 @@
       <!-- none, this is core.  -->
 
       <!-- 3rd party deps specifically for this module -->
-      <dependency>
-         <groupId>com.auth0</groupId>
-         <artifactId>mvc-auth-commons</artifactId>
-         <version>1.9.2</version>
-      </dependency>
       <dependency>
          <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
          <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
@@ -79,49 +62,48 @@
          <version>1.8</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
-         <groupId>org.assertj</groupId>
-         <artifactId>assertj-core</artifactId>
-         <version>3.23.1</version>
-         <scope>test</scope>
-      </dependency>
-      <!-- generates Method objects from method references, used initially by QFieldMetaData to make fields from getter method refs  -->
-      <dependency>
+         <!-- generates Method objects from method references, used initially by QFieldMetaData to make fields from getter method refs -->
          <groupId>com.github.hervian</groupId>
          <artifactId>safety-mirror</artifactId>
          <version>4.0.1</version>
       </dependency>
-      <!-- excel library -->
       <dependency>
          <groupId>org.dhatim</groupId>
          <artifactId>fastexcel</artifactId>
          <version>0.12.15</version>
       </dependency>
-
-      <!-- Common deps for all qqq modules -->
+      <dependency>
+         <groupId>com.auth0</groupId>
+         <artifactId>mvc-auth-commons</artifactId>
+         <version>1.9.2</version>
+      </dependency>
       <dependency>
          <groupId>io.github.cdimascio</groupId>
          <artifactId>java-dotenv</artifactId>
          <version>5.2.2</version>
       </dependency>
+
+      <!-- Common deps for all qqq modules -->
       <dependency>
          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
          <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
-         <version>3.1.2</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
          <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
          <artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
-         <version>2.17.1</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
          <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
          <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
-         <version>2.17.1</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
          <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
          <artifactId>junit-jupiter-engine</artifactId>
-         <version>5.8.1</version>
+         <scope>test</scope>
+      </dependency>
+      <dependency>
+         <groupId>org.assertj</groupId>
+         <artifactId>assertj-core</artifactId>
          <scope>test</scope>
       </dependency>
 
@@ -129,176 +111,17 @@
 
    <build>
       <plugins>
-         <!-- plugins specifically for this module -->
-         <!-- none at this time -->
-
-         <!-- Common plugins for all qqq modules -->
-         <plugin>
-            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-            <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>3.8.1</version>
-            <configuration>
-               <compilerArgument>-Xlint:unchecked</compilerArgument>
-            </configuration>
-         </plugin>
-         <plugin>
-            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-            <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>3.0.0-M5</version>
-            <configuration>
-               <!-- Sets the VM argument line used when integration tests are run. -->
-               <argLine>@{jaCoCoArgLine}</argLine>
-            </configuration>
-         </plugin>
-         <plugin>
-            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-            <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>3.1.2</version>
-            <dependencies>
-               <dependency>
-                  <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
-                  <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-                  <version>9.0</version>
-               </dependency>
-            </dependencies>
-            <executions>
-               <execution>
-                  <id>validate</id>
-                  <phase>validate</phase>
-                  <configuration>
-                     <configLocation>checkstyle.xml</configLocation>
-                     <!-- <suppressionsLocation>checkstyle-suppressions.xml</suppressionsLocation> -->
-                     <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
-                     <consoleOutput>true</consoleOutput>
-                     <failsOnError>false</failsOnError>
-                     <failOnViolation>true</failOnViolation>
-                     <violationSeverity>warning</violationSeverity>
-                     <excludes>**/target/generated-sources/*.*</excludes>
-                     <!-- <linkXRef>false</linkXRef> -->
-                  </configuration>
-                  <goals>
-                     <goal>check</goal>
-                  </goals>
-               </execution>
-            </executions>
-         </plugin>
-         <plugin>
-            <groupId>com.amashchenko.maven.plugin</groupId>
-            <artifactId>gitflow-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>1.18.0</version>
-            <configuration>
-               <gitFlowConfig>
-                  <productionBranch>main</productionBranch>
-                  <developmentBranch>dev</developmentBranch>
-                  <versionTagPrefix>version-</versionTagPrefix>
-               </gitFlowConfig>
-               <skipFeatureVersion>true</skipFeatureVersion> <!-- Keep feature names out of versions -->
-               <postReleaseGoals>install</postReleaseGoals>  <!-- Let CI run deploys -->
-               <commitDevelopmentVersionAtStart>true</commitDevelopmentVersionAtStart>
-               <versionDigitToIncrement>1</versionDigitToIncrement> <!-- In general, we update the minor -->
-            </configuration>
-         </plugin>
          <plugin>
             <groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>
             <artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>0.8.8</version>
             <configuration>
                <excludes>
                   <exclude>com/kingsrook/qqq/backend/core/model/**/*.class</exclude>
                   <exclude>com/kingsrook/qqq/backend/core/exceptions/**/*.class</exclude>
                </excludes>
             </configuration>
-            <executions>
-               <execution>
-                  <id>pre-unit-test</id>
-                  <goals>
-                     <goal>prepare-agent</goal>
-                  </goals>
-                  <configuration>
-                     <propertyName>jaCoCoArgLine</propertyName>
-                  </configuration>
-               </execution>
-               <execution>
-                  <id>unit-test-check</id>
-                  <goals>
-                     <goal>check</goal>
-                  </goals>
-                  <configuration>
-                     <!-- Gives us the ability to pass a parameter to not fail due to coverage E.g. -Dcoverage.haltOnFailure=false -->
-                     <haltOnFailure>${coverage.haltOnFailure}</haltOnFailure>
-                     <rules>
-                        <rule>
-                           <element>BUNDLE</element>
-                           <limits>
-                              <limit>
-                                 <counter>INSTRUCTION</counter>
-                                 <value>COVEREDRATIO</value>
-                                 <minimum>${coverage.instructionCoveredRatioMinimum}</minimum>
-                              </limit>
-                           </limits>
-                        </rule>
-                     </rules>
-                  </configuration>
-               </execution>
-               <execution>
-                  <id>post-unit-test</id>
-                  <phase>verify</phase>
-                  <goals>
-                     <goal>report</goal>
-                  </goals>
-               </execution>
-            </executions>
-         </plugin>
-         <plugin>
-            <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-            <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
-            <version>3.0.0</version>
-            <executions>
-               <execution>
-                  <id>test-coverage-summary</id>
-                  <phase>verify</phase>
-                  <goals>
-                     <goal>exec</goal>
-                  </goals>
-                  <configuration>
-                     <executable>sh</executable>
-                     <arguments>
-                        <argument>-c</argument>
-                        <argument>
-                           <![CDATA[
-echo "Element\nInstructions Missed\nInstruction Coverage\nBranches Missed\nBranch Coverage\nComplexity Missed\nComplexity Hit\nLines Missed\nLines Hit\nMethods Missed\nMethods Hit\nClasses Missed\nClasses Hit\n" > /tmp/$$.headers
-xpath -q -e '/html/body/table/tfoot/tr[1]/td/text()' target/site/jacoco/index.html > /tmp/$$.values
-echo
-echo "Jacoco coverage summary report:"
-echo "   See also target/site/jacoco/index.html"
-echo "   and https://www.jacoco.org/jacoco/trunk/doc/counters.html"
-echo "------------------------------------------------------------"
-paste /tmp/$$.headers /tmp/$$.values | tail +2 | awk -v FS='\t' '{printf("%-20s %s\n",$1,$2)}'
-rm /tmp/$$.headers /tmp/$$.values
-                           ]]>
-                        </argument>
-                     </arguments>
-                  </configuration>
-               </execution>
-            </executions>
          </plugin>
       </plugins>
    </build>
 
-   <repositories>
-      <repository>
-         <id>github-qqq-maven-registry</id>
-         <name>GitHub QQQ Maven Registry</name>
-         <url>https://maven.pkg.github.com/Kingsrook/qqq-maven-registry</url>
-      </repository>
-   </repositories>
-
-   <distributionManagement>
-      <repository>
-         <id>github-qqq-maven-registry</id>
-         <name>GitHub QQQ Maven Registry</name>
-         <url>https://maven.pkg.github.com/Kingsrook/qqq-maven-registry</url>
-      </repository>
-   </distributionManagement>
-
 </project>
diff --git a/qqq-backend-module-filesystem/.circleci/config.yml b/qqq-backend-module-filesystem/.circleci/config.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 87d7748d..00000000
--- a/qqq-backend-module-filesystem/.circleci/config.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,96 +0,0 @@
-## Deviations from qqq-java library standard circleci config:
-## - To test AWS S3, uses localstsack executor, orb, and startup step
-## - This docker image doesn't have java-17, so we install (and cache) jvm-17
-version: 2.1
-
-executors:
-  java17:
-    docker:
-      - image: 'cimg/openjdk:17.0'
-    resource_class: small
-
-orbs:
-  slack: circleci/slack@4.10.1
-  localstack: localstack/platform@1.0
-
-commands:
-  install_java17:
-    steps:
-      - run:
-          name: Install Java 17
-          command: |
-            sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:openjdk-r/ppa
-            sudo apt install -y openjdk-17-jdk
-            sudo rm /etc/alternatives/java
-            sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-17-openjdk-amd64/bin/java /etc/alternatives/java
-  run_maven:
-    parameters:
-      maven_subcommand:
-        default: test
-        type: string
-    steps:
-      - checkout
-      - restore_cache:
-          keys:
-            - v1-dependencies-{{ checksum "pom.xml" }}
-      - run:
-          name: Run Maven
-          command: |
-            mvn -s .circleci/mvn-settings.xml << parameters.maven_subcommand >>
-      - store_artifacts:
-          path: target/site/jacoco
-      - run:
-          name: Save test results
-          command: |
-            mkdir -p ~/test-results/junit/
-            find . -type f -regex ".*/target/surefire-reports/.*xml" -exec cp {} ~/test-results/junit/ \;
-          when: always
-      - store_test_results:
-          path: ~/test-results
-      - save_cache:
-          paths:
-            - ~/.m2
-          key: v1-dependencies-{{ checksum "pom.xml" }}
-
-jobs:
-  mvn_test:
-    executor: localstack/default
-    steps:
-      - localstack/startup
-      - install_java17
-      - run_maven:
-          maven_subcommand: verify
-      - slack/notify:
-          event: fail
-
-  mvn_deploy:
-    executor: localstack/default
-    steps:
-      - localstack/startup
-      - install_java17
-      - run_maven:
-          maven_subcommand: deploy
-      - slack/notify:
-          event: always
-
-workflows:
-  test_only:
-    jobs:
-      - mvn_test:
-          context: [ qqq-maven-registry-credentials, kingsrook-slack ]
-          filters:
-            branches:
-              ignore: /dev/
-            tags:
-              ignore: /(version|snapshot)-.*/
-
-  deploy:
-    jobs:
-      - mvn_deploy:
-          context: [ qqq-maven-registry-credentials, kingsrook-slack ]
-          filters:
-            branches:
-              only: /dev/
-            tags:
-              only: /(version|snapshot)-.*/
-
diff --git a/qqq-backend-module-filesystem/.circleci/mvn-settings.xml b/qqq-backend-module-filesystem/.circleci/mvn-settings.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index b2a345f0..00000000
--- a/qqq-backend-module-filesystem/.circleci/mvn-settings.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-<settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">
-    <servers>
-        <server>
-            <id>github-qqq-maven-registry</id>
-            <username>${env.QQQ_MAVEN_REGISTRY_USERNAME}</username>
-            <password>${env.QQQ_MAVEN_REGISTRY_PASSWORD}</password>
-        </server>
-    </servers>
-</settings>
diff --git a/qqq-backend-module-filesystem/checkstyle.xml b/qqq-backend-module-filesystem/checkstyle.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index f5e7412d..00000000
--- a/qqq-backend-module-filesystem/checkstyle.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,265 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0"?>
-<!--
-  ~ QQQ - Low-code Application Framework for Engineers.
-  ~ Copyright (C) 2021-2022.  Kingsrook, LLC
-  ~ 651 N Broad St Ste 205 # 6917 | Middletown DE 19709 | United States
-  ~ contact@kingsrook.com
-  ~ https://github.com/Kingsrook/
-  ~
-  ~ This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-  ~ it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
-  ~ published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
-  ~ License, or (at your option) any later version.
-  ~
-  ~ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-  ~ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-  ~ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-  ~ GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
-  ~
-  ~ You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
-  ~ along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-  -->
-
-<!DOCTYPE module PUBLIC
-        "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Check Configuration 1.3//EN"
-        "http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/dtds/configuration_1_3.dtd">
-<!--
-   See reference at https://checkstyle.sourceforge.io/checks.html
--->
-<module name = "Checker">
-   <property name="charset" value="UTF-8"/>
-
-   <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-
-   <property name="fileExtensions" value="java, properties, xml"/>
-   <!-- Checks for whitespace                        -->
-   <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_whitespace.html -->
-   <module name="FileTabCharacter">
-      <property name="eachLine" value="true"/>
-   </module>
-
-   <!--
-   <module name="LineLength">
-      <property name="max" value="100"/>
-      <property name="ignorePattern" value="^package.*|^import.*|a href|href|http://|https://|ftp://"/>
-   </module>
-   -->
-
-   <module name="TreeWalker">
-      <module name="SuppressWarningsHolder"/>
-      <module name="OuterTypeFilename"/>
-      <module name="IllegalTokenText">
-         <property name="tokens" value="STRING_LITERAL, CHAR_LITERAL"/>
-         <property name="format" value="\\u00(09|0(a|A)|0(c|C)|0(d|D)|22|27|5(C|c))|\\(0(10|11|12|14|15|42|47)|134)"/>
-         <property name="message" value="Consider using special escape sequence instead of octal value or Unicode escaped value."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="AvoidEscapedUnicodeCharacters">
-         <property name="allowEscapesForControlCharacters" value="true"/>
-         <property name="allowByTailComment" value="true"/>
-         <property name="allowNonPrintableEscapes" value="true"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="AvoidStarImport"/>
-      <module name="OneTopLevelClass"/>
-      <module name="NoLineWrap"/>
-      <module name="EmptyBlock">
-         <property name="option" value="TEXT"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="LITERAL_TRY, LITERAL_FINALLY, LITERAL_IF, LITERAL_ELSE, LITERAL_SWITCH"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="NeedBraces"/>
-      <module name="LeftCurly">
-         <property name="option" value="nl"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="RightCurly">
-         <property name="option" value="alone"/>
-      </module>
-      <!--
-      <module name="WhitespaceAround">
-         <property name="allowEmptyConstructors" value="true"/>
-         <property name="allowEmptyMethods" value="true"/>
-         <property name="allowEmptyTypes" value="true"/>
-         <property name="allowEmptyLoops" value="true"/>
-         <message key="ws.notFollowed"
-          value="WhitespaceAround: ''{0}'' is not followed by whitespace. Empty blocks may only be represented as '{}' when not part of a multi-block statement (4.1.3)"/>
-          <message key="ws.notPreceded"
-          value="WhitespaceAround: ''{0}'' is not preceded with whitespace."/>
-      </module>
-      -->
-      <module name="OneStatementPerLine"/>
-      <module name="MultipleVariableDeclarations"/>
-      <module name="ArrayTypeStyle"/>
-      <module name="MissingSwitchDefault"/>
-      <module name="FallThrough"/>
-      <module name="UpperEll"/>
-      <module name="ModifierOrder"/>
-      <module name="EmptyLineSeparator">
-         <property name="allowNoEmptyLineBetweenFields" value="true"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="SeparatorWrap">
-         <property name="id" value="SeparatorWrapDot"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="DOT"/>
-         <property name="option" value="nl"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="SeparatorWrap">
-         <property name="id" value="SeparatorWrapComma"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="COMMA"/>
-         <property name="option" value="EOL"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="SeparatorWrap">
-         <!-- ELLIPSIS is EOL until https://github.com/google/styleguide/issues/258 -->
-         <property name="id" value="SeparatorWrapEllipsis"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="ELLIPSIS"/>
-         <property name="option" value="EOL"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="SeparatorWrap">
-         <!-- ARRAY_DECLARATOR is EOL until https://github.com/google/styleguide/issues/259 -->
-         <property name="id" value="SeparatorWrapArrayDeclarator"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="ARRAY_DECLARATOR"/>
-         <property name="option" value="EOL"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="SeparatorWrap">
-         <property name="id" value="SeparatorWrapMethodRef"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="METHOD_REF"/>
-         <property name="option" value="nl"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="PackageName">
-         <property name="format" value="^[a-z]+(\.[a-z][a-z0-9]*)*$"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern"
-          value="Package name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="TypeName">
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern"
-          value="Type name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="MemberName">
-         <property name="format" value="^[_a-zA-Z]([a-z0-9A-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*)?$"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern" value="Member name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="ParameterName">
-         <property name="format" value="^[a-zA-Z]([a-z0-9A-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*)?$"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern" value="Parameter name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="CatchParameterName">
-         <property name="format" value="^[a-zA-Z]([a-z0-9A-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*)?$"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern" value="Catch parameter name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="LocalVariableName">
-         <property name="tokens" value="VARIABLE_DEF"/>
-         <property name="format" value="^[a-zA-Z]([a-z0-9A-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*)?$"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern" value="Local variable name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="ClassTypeParameterName">
-         <property name="format" value="(^[A-Z][0-9]?)$|([A-Z][_A-Z0-9]*$)"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern" value="Class type name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="MethodTypeParameterName">
-         <property name="format" value="(^[A-Z][0-9]?)$|([A-Z][_A-Z0-9]*$)"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern" value="Method type name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="InterfaceTypeParameterName">
-         <property name="format" value="(^[A-Z][0-9]?)$|([A-Z][_A-Z0-9]*$)"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern" value="Interface type name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="NoFinalizer"/>
-      <module name="GenericWhitespace">
-         <message key="ws.followed" value="GenericWhitespace ''{0}'' is followed by whitespace."/>
-         <message key="ws.preceded" value="GenericWhitespace ''{0}'' is preceded with whitespace."/>
-         <message key="ws.illegalFollow" value="GenericWhitespace ''{0}'' should followed by whitespace."/>
-         <message key="ws.notPreceded" value="GenericWhitespace ''{0}'' is not preceded with whitespace."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="Indentation">
-         <property name="basicOffset" value="3"/>
-         <property name="braceAdjustment" value="0"/>
-         <property name="caseIndent" value="3"/>
-         <property name="throwsIndent" value="6"/>
-         <property name="lineWrappingIndentation" value="3"/>
-         <property name="arrayInitIndent" value="6"/>
-      </module>
-      <!--
-      <module name="AbbreviationAsWordInName">
-         <property name="ignoreFinal" value="false"/>
-         <property name="allowedAbbreviationLength" value="1"/>
-      </module>
-      -->
-      <module name="OverloadMethodsDeclarationOrder"/>
-      <!--
-      <module name="VariableDeclarationUsageDistance"/>
-      <module name="CustomImportOrder">
-         <property name="sortImportsInGroupAlphabetically" value="true"/>
-         <property name="separateLineBetweenGroups" value="true"/>
-         <property name="customImportOrderRules" value="STATIC###THIRD_PARTY_PACKAGE"/>
-      </module>
-      -->
-      <module name="CustomImportOrder">
-         <property name="customImportOrderRules" value="SPECIAL_IMPORTS###STANDARD_JAVA_PACKAGE###THIRD_PARTY_PACKAGE###STATIC"/>
-         <property name="specialImportsRegExp" value="^javax\."/>
-         <property name="standardPackageRegExp" value="^java\."/>
-         <property name="sortImportsInGroupAlphabetically" value="true"/>
-         <property name="separateLineBetweenGroups" value="false"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="MethodParamPad"/>
-      <module name="NoWhitespaceBefore">
-         <property name="tokens" value="COMMA, SEMI, POST_INC, POST_DEC, DOT, ELLIPSIS, METHOD_REF"/>
-         <property name="allowLineBreaks" value="true"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="ParenPad"/>
-      <module name="OperatorWrap">
-         <property name="option" value="NL"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="BAND, BOR, BSR, BXOR, DIV, EQUAL, GE, GT, LAND, LE, LITERAL_INSTANCEOF, LOR, LT, MINUS, MOD, NOT_EQUAL, PLUS, QUESTION, SL, SR, STAR, METHOD_REF "/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="AnnotationLocation">
-         <property name="id" value="AnnotationLocationMostCases"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="CLASS_DEF, INTERFACE_DEF, ENUM_DEF, METHOD_DEF, CTOR_DEF"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="AnnotationLocation">
-         <property name="id" value="AnnotationLocationVariables"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="VARIABLE_DEF"/>
-         <property name="allowSamelineMultipleAnnotations" value="true"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="NonEmptyAtclauseDescription"/>
-      <!-- <module name="JavadocTagContinuationIndentation"/> -->
-      <!--
-      <module name="SummaryJavadoc">
-         <property name="forbiddenSummaryFragments" value="^@return the *|^This method returns |^A [{]@code [a-zA-Z0-9]+[}]( is a )"/>
-      </module>
-      -->
-      <!-- <module name="JavadocParagraph"/> -->
-      <module name="AtclauseOrder">
-         <property name="tagOrder" value="@param, @return, @throws, @deprecated"/>
-         <property name="target" value="CLASS_DEF, INTERFACE_DEF, ENUM_DEF, METHOD_DEF, CTOR_DEF, VARIABLE_DEF"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="JavadocMethod">
-         <property name="allowMissingParamTags" value="true"/>
-         <property name="allowMissingReturnTag" value="true"/>
-         <property name="allowedAnnotations" value="Override, Test"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="MissingJavadocMethod">
-         <property name="scope" value="private"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="MethodName">
-         <property name="format" value="^[a-z][a-zA-Z0-9_]*$"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern"
-          value="Method name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="SingleLineJavadoc">
-         <property name="ignoreInlineTags" value="false"/>
-      </module>
-
-      <module name="MagicNumber">
-         <property name="severity" value="info"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="NUM_DOUBLE, NUM_FLOAT, NUM_INT"/>
-         <property name="ignoreNumbers" value="0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8"/>
-         <property name="ignoreFieldDeclaration" value="true"/>
-         <property name="ignoreAnnotation" value="true"/>
-      </module>
-
-      <module name="EmptyCatchBlock">
-         <property name="exceptionVariableName" value="expected"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="CommentsIndentation"/>
-
-      <!-- this would be nice, but requires the the @inheritDoc javadoc tag... -->
-      <module name="MissingOverride"/>
-
-   </module>
-   <module name="SuppressWarningsFilter"/>
-</module>
diff --git a/qqq-backend-module-filesystem/pom.xml b/qqq-backend-module-filesystem/pom.xml
index aa463203..32cc274f 100644
--- a/qqq-backend-module-filesystem/pom.xml
+++ b/qqq-backend-module-filesystem/pom.xml
@@ -23,29 +23,17 @@
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
-   <groupId>com.kingsrook.qqq</groupId>
    <artifactId>qqq-backend-module-filesystem</artifactId>
-   <version>0.3.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
 
-   <scm>
-     <connection>scm:git:git@github.com:Kingsrook/qqq-backend-module-rdbms.git</connection>
-     <developerConnection>scm:git:git@github.com:Kingsrook/qqq-backend-module-rdbms.git</developerConnection>
-     <tag>HEAD</tag>
-   </scm>
+   <parent>
+      <groupId>com.kingsrook.qqq</groupId>
+      <artifactId>qqq-parent-project</artifactId>
+      <version>${revision}</version>
+   </parent>
 
    <properties>
       <!-- props specifically to this module -->
       <!-- none at this time -->
-
-      <!-- Common props for all qqq modules -->
-      <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-      <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
-      <maven.compiler.source>17</maven.compiler.source>
-      <maven.compiler.target>17</maven.compiler.target>
-      <maven.compiler.showDeprecation>true</maven.compiler.showDeprecation>
-      <maven.compiler.showWarnings>true</maven.compiler.showWarnings>
-      <coverage.haltOnFailure>true</coverage.haltOnFailure>
-      <coverage.instructionCoveredRatioMinimum>0.80</coverage.instructionCoveredRatioMinimum>
    </properties>
 
    <dependencies>
@@ -53,7 +41,7 @@
       <dependency>
          <groupId>com.kingsrook.qqq</groupId>
          <artifactId>qqq-backend-core</artifactId>
-         <version>0.2.0</version>
+         <version>${revision}</version>
       </dependency>
 
       <!-- 3rd party deps specifically for this module -->
@@ -73,197 +61,25 @@
       <dependency>
          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
          <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
-         <version>3.1.2</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
          <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
          <artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
-         <version>2.17.1</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
          <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
          <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
-         <version>2.17.1</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
          <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
          <artifactId>junit-jupiter-engine</artifactId>
-         <version>5.8.1</version>
          <scope>test</scope>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
          <groupId>org.assertj</groupId>
          <artifactId>assertj-core</artifactId>
-         <version>3.23.1</version>
          <scope>test</scope>
       </dependency>
    </dependencies>
 
-   <build>
-      <plugins>
-         <!-- plugins specifically for this module -->
-         <!-- none at this time -->
-
-         <!-- Common plugins for all qqq modules -->
-         <plugin>
-            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-            <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>3.8.1</version>
-            <configuration>
-               <compilerArgument>-Xlint:unchecked</compilerArgument>
-            </configuration>
-         </plugin>
-         <plugin>
-            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-            <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>3.0.0-M5</version>
-            <configuration>
-               <argLine>@{jaCoCoArgLine}</argLine>
-            </configuration>
-         </plugin>
-         <plugin>
-            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-            <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>3.1.2</version>
-            <dependencies>
-               <dependency>
-                  <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
-                  <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-                  <version>9.0</version>
-               </dependency>
-            </dependencies>
-            <executions>
-               <execution>
-                  <id>validate</id>
-                  <phase>validate</phase>
-                  <configuration>
-                     <configLocation>checkstyle.xml</configLocation>
-                     <!-- <suppressionsLocation>checkstyle-suppressions.xml</suppressionsLocation> -->
-                     <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
-                     <consoleOutput>true</consoleOutput>
-                     <failsOnError>false</failsOnError>
-                     <failOnViolation>true</failOnViolation>
-                     <violationSeverity>warning</violationSeverity>
-                     <excludes>**/target/generated-sources/*.*</excludes>
-                     <!-- <linkXRef>false</linkXRef> -->
-                  </configuration>
-                  <goals>
-                     <goal>check</goal>
-                  </goals>
-               </execution>
-            </executions>
-         </plugin>
-         <plugin>
-            <groupId>com.amashchenko.maven.plugin</groupId>
-            <artifactId>gitflow-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>1.18.0</version>
-            <configuration>
-               <gitFlowConfig>
-                  <productionBranch>main</productionBranch>
-                  <developmentBranch>dev</developmentBranch>
-                  <versionTagPrefix>version-</versionTagPrefix>
-               </gitFlowConfig>
-               <skipFeatureVersion>true</skipFeatureVersion> <!-- Keep feature names out of versions -->
-               <postReleaseGoals>install</postReleaseGoals>  <!-- Let CI run deploys -->
-               <commitDevelopmentVersionAtStart>true</commitDevelopmentVersionAtStart>
-               <versionDigitToIncrement>1</versionDigitToIncrement> <!-- In general, we update the minor -->
-            </configuration>
-         </plugin>
-         <plugin>
-            <groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>
-            <artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>0.8.8</version>
-            <executions>
-               <execution>
-                  <id>pre-unit-test</id>
-                  <goals>
-                     <goal>prepare-agent</goal>
-                  </goals>
-                  <configuration>
-                     <propertyName>jaCoCoArgLine</propertyName>
-                  </configuration>
-               </execution>
-               <execution>
-                  <id>unit-test-check</id>
-                  <goals>
-                     <goal>check</goal>
-                  </goals>
-                  <configuration>
-                     <!-- Gives us the ability to pass a parameter to not fail due to coverage E.g. -Dcoverage.haltOnFailure=false -->
-                     <haltOnFailure>${coverage.haltOnFailure}</haltOnFailure>
-                     <rules>
-                        <rule>
-                           <element>BUNDLE</element>
-                           <limits>
-                              <limit>
-                                 <counter>INSTRUCTION</counter>
-                                 <value>COVEREDRATIO</value>
-                                 <minimum>${coverage.instructionCoveredRatioMinimum}</minimum>
-                              </limit>
-                           </limits>
-                        </rule>
-                     </rules>
-                  </configuration>
-               </execution>
-               <execution>
-                  <id>post-unit-test</id>
-                  <phase>verify</phase>
-                  <goals>
-                     <goal>report</goal>
-                  </goals>
-               </execution>
-            </executions>
-         </plugin>
-         <plugin>
-            <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-            <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
-            <version>3.0.0</version>
-            <executions>
-               <execution>
-                  <id>test-coverage-summary</id>
-                  <phase>verify</phase>
-                  <goals>
-                     <goal>exec</goal>
-                  </goals>
-                  <configuration>
-                     <executable>sh</executable>
-                     <arguments>
-                        <argument>-c</argument>
-                        <argument>
-                           <![CDATA[
-echo "Element\nInstructions Missed\nInstruction Coverage\nBranches Missed\nBranch Coverage\nComplexity Missed\nComplexity Hit\nLines Missed\nLines Hit\nMethods Missed\nMethods Hit\nClasses Missed\nClasses Hit\n" > /tmp/$$.headers
-xpath -q -e '/html/body/table/tfoot/tr[1]/td/text()' target/site/jacoco/index.html > /tmp/$$.values
-echo
-echo "Jacoco coverage summary report:"
-echo "   See also target/site/jacoco/index.html"
-echo "   and https://www.jacoco.org/jacoco/trunk/doc/counters.html"
-echo "------------------------------------------------------------"
-paste /tmp/$$.headers /tmp/$$.values | tail +2 | awk -v FS='\t' '{printf("%-20s %s\n",$1,$2)}'
-rm /tmp/$$.headers /tmp/$$.values
-                           ]]>
-                        </argument>
-                     </arguments>
-                  </configuration>
-               </execution>
-            </executions>
-         </plugin>
-      </plugins>
-   </build>
-
-   <repositories>
-      <repository>
-        <id>github-qqq-maven-registry</id>
-        <name>GitHub QQQ Maven Registry</name>
-        <url>https://maven.pkg.github.com/Kingsrook/qqq-maven-registry</url>
-      </repository>
-   </repositories>
-
-   <distributionManagement>
-      <repository>
-        <id>github-qqq-maven-registry</id>
-        <name>GitHub QQQ Maven Registry</name>
-        <url>https://maven.pkg.github.com/Kingsrook/qqq-maven-registry</url>
-      </repository>
-   </distributionManagement>
-
 </project>
diff --git a/qqq-backend-module-rdbms/.circleci/config.yml b/qqq-backend-module-rdbms/.circleci/config.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 658f75d1..00000000
--- a/qqq-backend-module-rdbms/.circleci/config.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,79 +0,0 @@
-version: 2.1
-
-executors:
-  java17:
-    docker:
-      - image: 'cimg/openjdk:17.0'
-    resource_class: small
-
-orbs:
-  slack: circleci/slack@4.10.1
-
-commands:
-  run_maven:
-    parameters:
-      maven_subcommand:
-        default: test
-        type: string
-    steps:
-      - checkout
-      - restore_cache:
-          keys:
-            - v1-dependencies-{{ checksum "pom.xml" }}
-      - run:
-          name: Run Maven
-          command: |
-            mvn -s .circleci/mvn-settings.xml << parameters.maven_subcommand >>
-      - store_artifacts:
-          path: target/site/jacoco
-      - run:
-          name: Save test results
-          command: |
-            mkdir -p ~/test-results/junit/
-            find . -type f -regex ".*/target/surefire-reports/.*xml" -exec cp {} ~/test-results/junit/ \;
-          when: always
-      - store_test_results:
-          path: ~/test-results
-      - save_cache:
-          paths:
-            - ~/.m2
-          key: v1-dependencies-{{ checksum "pom.xml" }}
-
-jobs:
-  mvn_test:
-    executor: java17
-    steps:
-      - run_maven:
-          maven_subcommand: verify
-      - slack/notify:
-          event: fail
-
-  mvn_deploy:
-    executor: java17
-    steps:
-      - run_maven:
-          maven_subcommand: deploy
-      - slack/notify:
-          event: always
-
-workflows:
-  test_only:
-    jobs:
-      - mvn_test:
-          context: [ qqq-maven-registry-credentials, kingsrook-slack ]
-          filters:
-            branches:
-              ignore: /dev/
-            tags:
-              ignore: /(version|snapshot)-.*/
-
-  deploy:
-    jobs:
-      - mvn_deploy:
-          context: [ qqq-maven-registry-credentials, kingsrook-slack ]
-          filters:
-            branches:
-              only: /dev/
-            tags:
-              only: /(version|snapshot)-.*/
-
diff --git a/qqq-backend-module-rdbms/.circleci/mvn-settings.xml b/qqq-backend-module-rdbms/.circleci/mvn-settings.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index b2a345f0..00000000
--- a/qqq-backend-module-rdbms/.circleci/mvn-settings.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-<settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">
-    <servers>
-        <server>
-            <id>github-qqq-maven-registry</id>
-            <username>${env.QQQ_MAVEN_REGISTRY_USERNAME}</username>
-            <password>${env.QQQ_MAVEN_REGISTRY_PASSWORD}</password>
-        </server>
-    </servers>
-</settings>
diff --git a/qqq-backend-module-rdbms/checkstyle.xml b/qqq-backend-module-rdbms/checkstyle.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index f5e7412d..00000000
--- a/qqq-backend-module-rdbms/checkstyle.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,265 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0"?>
-<!--
-  ~ QQQ - Low-code Application Framework for Engineers.
-  ~ Copyright (C) 2021-2022.  Kingsrook, LLC
-  ~ 651 N Broad St Ste 205 # 6917 | Middletown DE 19709 | United States
-  ~ contact@kingsrook.com
-  ~ https://github.com/Kingsrook/
-  ~
-  ~ This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-  ~ it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
-  ~ published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
-  ~ License, or (at your option) any later version.
-  ~
-  ~ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-  ~ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-  ~ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-  ~ GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
-  ~
-  ~ You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
-  ~ along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-  -->
-
-<!DOCTYPE module PUBLIC
-        "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Check Configuration 1.3//EN"
-        "http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/dtds/configuration_1_3.dtd">
-<!--
-   See reference at https://checkstyle.sourceforge.io/checks.html
--->
-<module name = "Checker">
-   <property name="charset" value="UTF-8"/>
-
-   <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-
-   <property name="fileExtensions" value="java, properties, xml"/>
-   <!-- Checks for whitespace                        -->
-   <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_whitespace.html -->
-   <module name="FileTabCharacter">
-      <property name="eachLine" value="true"/>
-   </module>
-
-   <!--
-   <module name="LineLength">
-      <property name="max" value="100"/>
-      <property name="ignorePattern" value="^package.*|^import.*|a href|href|http://|https://|ftp://"/>
-   </module>
-   -->
-
-   <module name="TreeWalker">
-      <module name="SuppressWarningsHolder"/>
-      <module name="OuterTypeFilename"/>
-      <module name="IllegalTokenText">
-         <property name="tokens" value="STRING_LITERAL, CHAR_LITERAL"/>
-         <property name="format" value="\\u00(09|0(a|A)|0(c|C)|0(d|D)|22|27|5(C|c))|\\(0(10|11|12|14|15|42|47)|134)"/>
-         <property name="message" value="Consider using special escape sequence instead of octal value or Unicode escaped value."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="AvoidEscapedUnicodeCharacters">
-         <property name="allowEscapesForControlCharacters" value="true"/>
-         <property name="allowByTailComment" value="true"/>
-         <property name="allowNonPrintableEscapes" value="true"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="AvoidStarImport"/>
-      <module name="OneTopLevelClass"/>
-      <module name="NoLineWrap"/>
-      <module name="EmptyBlock">
-         <property name="option" value="TEXT"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="LITERAL_TRY, LITERAL_FINALLY, LITERAL_IF, LITERAL_ELSE, LITERAL_SWITCH"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="NeedBraces"/>
-      <module name="LeftCurly">
-         <property name="option" value="nl"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="RightCurly">
-         <property name="option" value="alone"/>
-      </module>
-      <!--
-      <module name="WhitespaceAround">
-         <property name="allowEmptyConstructors" value="true"/>
-         <property name="allowEmptyMethods" value="true"/>
-         <property name="allowEmptyTypes" value="true"/>
-         <property name="allowEmptyLoops" value="true"/>
-         <message key="ws.notFollowed"
-          value="WhitespaceAround: ''{0}'' is not followed by whitespace. Empty blocks may only be represented as '{}' when not part of a multi-block statement (4.1.3)"/>
-          <message key="ws.notPreceded"
-          value="WhitespaceAround: ''{0}'' is not preceded with whitespace."/>
-      </module>
-      -->
-      <module name="OneStatementPerLine"/>
-      <module name="MultipleVariableDeclarations"/>
-      <module name="ArrayTypeStyle"/>
-      <module name="MissingSwitchDefault"/>
-      <module name="FallThrough"/>
-      <module name="UpperEll"/>
-      <module name="ModifierOrder"/>
-      <module name="EmptyLineSeparator">
-         <property name="allowNoEmptyLineBetweenFields" value="true"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="SeparatorWrap">
-         <property name="id" value="SeparatorWrapDot"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="DOT"/>
-         <property name="option" value="nl"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="SeparatorWrap">
-         <property name="id" value="SeparatorWrapComma"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="COMMA"/>
-         <property name="option" value="EOL"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="SeparatorWrap">
-         <!-- ELLIPSIS is EOL until https://github.com/google/styleguide/issues/258 -->
-         <property name="id" value="SeparatorWrapEllipsis"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="ELLIPSIS"/>
-         <property name="option" value="EOL"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="SeparatorWrap">
-         <!-- ARRAY_DECLARATOR is EOL until https://github.com/google/styleguide/issues/259 -->
-         <property name="id" value="SeparatorWrapArrayDeclarator"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="ARRAY_DECLARATOR"/>
-         <property name="option" value="EOL"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="SeparatorWrap">
-         <property name="id" value="SeparatorWrapMethodRef"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="METHOD_REF"/>
-         <property name="option" value="nl"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="PackageName">
-         <property name="format" value="^[a-z]+(\.[a-z][a-z0-9]*)*$"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern"
-          value="Package name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="TypeName">
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern"
-          value="Type name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="MemberName">
-         <property name="format" value="^[_a-zA-Z]([a-z0-9A-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*)?$"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern" value="Member name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="ParameterName">
-         <property name="format" value="^[a-zA-Z]([a-z0-9A-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*)?$"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern" value="Parameter name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="CatchParameterName">
-         <property name="format" value="^[a-zA-Z]([a-z0-9A-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*)?$"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern" value="Catch parameter name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="LocalVariableName">
-         <property name="tokens" value="VARIABLE_DEF"/>
-         <property name="format" value="^[a-zA-Z]([a-z0-9A-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*)?$"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern" value="Local variable name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="ClassTypeParameterName">
-         <property name="format" value="(^[A-Z][0-9]?)$|([A-Z][_A-Z0-9]*$)"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern" value="Class type name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="MethodTypeParameterName">
-         <property name="format" value="(^[A-Z][0-9]?)$|([A-Z][_A-Z0-9]*$)"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern" value="Method type name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="InterfaceTypeParameterName">
-         <property name="format" value="(^[A-Z][0-9]?)$|([A-Z][_A-Z0-9]*$)"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern" value="Interface type name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="NoFinalizer"/>
-      <module name="GenericWhitespace">
-         <message key="ws.followed" value="GenericWhitespace ''{0}'' is followed by whitespace."/>
-         <message key="ws.preceded" value="GenericWhitespace ''{0}'' is preceded with whitespace."/>
-         <message key="ws.illegalFollow" value="GenericWhitespace ''{0}'' should followed by whitespace."/>
-         <message key="ws.notPreceded" value="GenericWhitespace ''{0}'' is not preceded with whitespace."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="Indentation">
-         <property name="basicOffset" value="3"/>
-         <property name="braceAdjustment" value="0"/>
-         <property name="caseIndent" value="3"/>
-         <property name="throwsIndent" value="6"/>
-         <property name="lineWrappingIndentation" value="3"/>
-         <property name="arrayInitIndent" value="6"/>
-      </module>
-      <!--
-      <module name="AbbreviationAsWordInName">
-         <property name="ignoreFinal" value="false"/>
-         <property name="allowedAbbreviationLength" value="1"/>
-      </module>
-      -->
-      <module name="OverloadMethodsDeclarationOrder"/>
-      <!--
-      <module name="VariableDeclarationUsageDistance"/>
-      <module name="CustomImportOrder">
-         <property name="sortImportsInGroupAlphabetically" value="true"/>
-         <property name="separateLineBetweenGroups" value="true"/>
-         <property name="customImportOrderRules" value="STATIC###THIRD_PARTY_PACKAGE"/>
-      </module>
-      -->
-      <module name="CustomImportOrder">
-         <property name="customImportOrderRules" value="SPECIAL_IMPORTS###STANDARD_JAVA_PACKAGE###THIRD_PARTY_PACKAGE###STATIC"/>
-         <property name="specialImportsRegExp" value="^javax\."/>
-         <property name="standardPackageRegExp" value="^java\."/>
-         <property name="sortImportsInGroupAlphabetically" value="true"/>
-         <property name="separateLineBetweenGroups" value="false"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="MethodParamPad"/>
-      <module name="NoWhitespaceBefore">
-         <property name="tokens" value="COMMA, SEMI, POST_INC, POST_DEC, DOT, ELLIPSIS, METHOD_REF"/>
-         <property name="allowLineBreaks" value="true"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="ParenPad"/>
-      <module name="OperatorWrap">
-         <property name="option" value="NL"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="BAND, BOR, BSR, BXOR, DIV, EQUAL, GE, GT, LAND, LE, LITERAL_INSTANCEOF, LOR, LT, MINUS, MOD, NOT_EQUAL, PLUS, QUESTION, SL, SR, STAR, METHOD_REF "/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="AnnotationLocation">
-         <property name="id" value="AnnotationLocationMostCases"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="CLASS_DEF, INTERFACE_DEF, ENUM_DEF, METHOD_DEF, CTOR_DEF"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="AnnotationLocation">
-         <property name="id" value="AnnotationLocationVariables"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="VARIABLE_DEF"/>
-         <property name="allowSamelineMultipleAnnotations" value="true"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="NonEmptyAtclauseDescription"/>
-      <!-- <module name="JavadocTagContinuationIndentation"/> -->
-      <!--
-      <module name="SummaryJavadoc">
-         <property name="forbiddenSummaryFragments" value="^@return the *|^This method returns |^A [{]@code [a-zA-Z0-9]+[}]( is a )"/>
-      </module>
-      -->
-      <!-- <module name="JavadocParagraph"/> -->
-      <module name="AtclauseOrder">
-         <property name="tagOrder" value="@param, @return, @throws, @deprecated"/>
-         <property name="target" value="CLASS_DEF, INTERFACE_DEF, ENUM_DEF, METHOD_DEF, CTOR_DEF, VARIABLE_DEF"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="JavadocMethod">
-         <property name="allowMissingParamTags" value="true"/>
-         <property name="allowMissingReturnTag" value="true"/>
-         <property name="allowedAnnotations" value="Override, Test"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="MissingJavadocMethod">
-         <property name="scope" value="private"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="MethodName">
-         <property name="format" value="^[a-z][a-zA-Z0-9_]*$"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern"
-          value="Method name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="SingleLineJavadoc">
-         <property name="ignoreInlineTags" value="false"/>
-      </module>
-
-      <module name="MagicNumber">
-         <property name="severity" value="info"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="NUM_DOUBLE, NUM_FLOAT, NUM_INT"/>
-         <property name="ignoreNumbers" value="0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8"/>
-         <property name="ignoreFieldDeclaration" value="true"/>
-         <property name="ignoreAnnotation" value="true"/>
-      </module>
-
-      <module name="EmptyCatchBlock">
-         <property name="exceptionVariableName" value="expected"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="CommentsIndentation"/>
-
-      <!-- this would be nice, but requires the the @inheritDoc javadoc tag... -->
-      <module name="MissingOverride"/>
-
-   </module>
-   <module name="SuppressWarningsFilter"/>
-</module>
diff --git a/qqq-backend-module-rdbms/pom.xml b/qqq-backend-module-rdbms/pom.xml
index 933a359d..817a1e1d 100644
--- a/qqq-backend-module-rdbms/pom.xml
+++ b/qqq-backend-module-rdbms/pom.xml
@@ -23,29 +23,17 @@
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
-   <groupId>com.kingsrook.qqq</groupId>
    <artifactId>qqq-backend-module-rdbms</artifactId>
-   <version>0.3.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
 
-   <scm>
-     <connection>scm:git:git@github.com:Kingsrook/qqq-backend-module-rdbms.git</connection>
-     <developerConnection>scm:git:git@github.com:Kingsrook/qqq-backend-module-rdbms.git</developerConnection>
-     <tag>HEAD</tag>
-   </scm>
+   <parent>
+      <groupId>com.kingsrook.qqq</groupId>
+      <artifactId>qqq-parent-project</artifactId>
+      <version>${revision}</version>
+   </parent>
 
    <properties>
       <!-- props specifically to this module -->
       <!-- none at this time -->
-
-      <!-- Common props for all qqq modules -->
-      <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-      <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
-      <maven.compiler.source>17</maven.compiler.source>
-      <maven.compiler.target>17</maven.compiler.target>
-      <maven.compiler.showDeprecation>true</maven.compiler.showDeprecation>
-      <maven.compiler.showWarnings>true</maven.compiler.showWarnings>
-      <coverage.haltOnFailure>true</coverage.haltOnFailure>
-      <coverage.instructionCoveredRatioMinimum>0.80</coverage.instructionCoveredRatioMinimum>
    </properties>
 
    <dependencies>
@@ -53,7 +41,7 @@
       <dependency>
          <groupId>com.kingsrook.qqq</groupId>
          <artifactId>qqq-backend-core</artifactId>
-         <version>0.2.0</version>
+         <version>${revision}</version>
       </dependency>
 
       <!-- 3rd party deps specifically for this module -->
@@ -74,197 +62,25 @@
       <dependency>
          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
          <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
-         <version>3.1.2</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
          <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
          <artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
-         <version>2.17.1</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
          <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
          <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
-         <version>2.17.1</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
          <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
          <artifactId>junit-jupiter-engine</artifactId>
-         <version>5.8.1</version>
          <scope>test</scope>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
          <groupId>org.assertj</groupId>
          <artifactId>assertj-core</artifactId>
-         <version>3.23.1</version>
          <scope>test</scope>
       </dependency>
    </dependencies>
 
-   <build>
-      <plugins>
-         <!-- plugins specifically for this module -->
-         <!-- none at this time -->
-
-         <!-- Common plugins for all qqq modules -->
-         <plugin>
-            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-            <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>3.8.1</version>
-            <configuration>
-               <compilerArgument>-Xlint:unchecked</compilerArgument>
-            </configuration>
-         </plugin>
-         <plugin>
-            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-            <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>3.0.0-M5</version>
-            <configuration>
-               <argLine>@{jaCoCoArgLine}</argLine>
-            </configuration>
-         </plugin>
-         <plugin>
-            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-            <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>3.1.2</version>
-            <dependencies>
-               <dependency>
-                  <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
-                  <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-                  <version>9.0</version>
-               </dependency>
-            </dependencies>
-            <executions>
-               <execution>
-                  <id>validate</id>
-                  <phase>validate</phase>
-                  <configuration>
-                     <configLocation>checkstyle.xml</configLocation>
-                     <!-- <suppressionsLocation>checkstyle-suppressions.xml</suppressionsLocation> -->
-                     <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
-                     <consoleOutput>true</consoleOutput>
-                     <failsOnError>false</failsOnError>
-                     <failOnViolation>true</failOnViolation>
-                     <violationSeverity>warning</violationSeverity>
-                     <excludes>**/target/generated-sources/*.*</excludes>
-                     <!-- <linkXRef>false</linkXRef> -->
-                  </configuration>
-                  <goals>
-                     <goal>check</goal>
-                  </goals>
-               </execution>
-            </executions>
-         </plugin>
-         <plugin>
-            <groupId>com.amashchenko.maven.plugin</groupId>
-            <artifactId>gitflow-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>1.18.0</version>
-            <configuration>
-               <gitFlowConfig>
-                  <productionBranch>main</productionBranch>
-                  <developmentBranch>dev</developmentBranch>
-                  <versionTagPrefix>version-</versionTagPrefix>
-               </gitFlowConfig>
-               <skipFeatureVersion>true</skipFeatureVersion> <!-- Keep feature names out of versions -->
-               <postReleaseGoals>install</postReleaseGoals>  <!-- Let CI run deploys -->
-               <commitDevelopmentVersionAtStart>true</commitDevelopmentVersionAtStart>
-               <versionDigitToIncrement>1</versionDigitToIncrement> <!-- In general, we update the minor -->
-            </configuration>
-         </plugin>
-         <plugin>
-            <groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>
-            <artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>0.8.8</version>
-            <executions>
-               <execution>
-                  <id>pre-unit-test</id>
-                  <goals>
-                     <goal>prepare-agent</goal>
-                  </goals>
-                  <configuration>
-                     <propertyName>jaCoCoArgLine</propertyName>
-                  </configuration>
-               </execution>
-               <execution>
-                  <id>unit-test-check</id>
-                  <goals>
-                     <goal>check</goal>
-                  </goals>
-                  <configuration>
-                     <!-- Gives us the ability to pass a parameter to not fail due to coverage E.g. -Dcoverage.haltOnFailure=false -->
-                     <haltOnFailure>${coverage.haltOnFailure}</haltOnFailure>
-                     <rules>
-                        <rule>
-                           <element>BUNDLE</element>
-                           <limits>
-                              <limit>
-                                 <counter>INSTRUCTION</counter>
-                                 <value>COVEREDRATIO</value>
-                                 <minimum>${coverage.instructionCoveredRatioMinimum}</minimum>
-                              </limit>
-                           </limits>
-                        </rule>
-                     </rules>
-                  </configuration>
-               </execution>
-               <execution>
-                  <id>post-unit-test</id>
-                  <phase>verify</phase>
-                  <goals>
-                     <goal>report</goal>
-                  </goals>
-               </execution>
-            </executions>
-         </plugin>
-         <plugin>
-            <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-            <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
-            <version>3.0.0</version>
-            <executions>
-               <execution>
-                  <id>test-coverage-summary</id>
-                  <phase>verify</phase>
-                  <goals>
-                     <goal>exec</goal>
-                  </goals>
-                  <configuration>
-                     <executable>sh</executable>
-                     <arguments>
-                        <argument>-c</argument>
-                        <argument>
-                           <![CDATA[
-echo "Element\nInstructions Missed\nInstruction Coverage\nBranches Missed\nBranch Coverage\nComplexity Missed\nComplexity Hit\nLines Missed\nLines Hit\nMethods Missed\nMethods Hit\nClasses Missed\nClasses Hit\n" > /tmp/$$.headers
-xpath -q -e '/html/body/table/tfoot/tr[1]/td/text()' target/site/jacoco/index.html > /tmp/$$.values
-echo
-echo "Jacoco coverage summary report:"
-echo "   See also target/site/jacoco/index.html"
-echo "   and https://www.jacoco.org/jacoco/trunk/doc/counters.html"
-echo "------------------------------------------------------------"
-paste /tmp/$$.headers /tmp/$$.values | tail +2 | awk -v FS='\t' '{printf("%-20s %s\n",$1,$2)}'
-rm /tmp/$$.headers /tmp/$$.values
-                           ]]>
-                        </argument>
-                     </arguments>
-                  </configuration>
-               </execution>
-            </executions>
-         </plugin>
-      </plugins>
-   </build>
-
-   <repositories>
-      <repository>
-        <id>github-qqq-maven-registry</id>
-        <name>GitHub QQQ Maven Registry</name>
-        <url>https://maven.pkg.github.com/Kingsrook/qqq-maven-registry</url>
-      </repository>
-   </repositories>
-
-   <distributionManagement>
-      <repository>
-        <id>github-qqq-maven-registry</id>
-        <name>GitHub QQQ Maven Registry</name>
-        <url>https://maven.pkg.github.com/Kingsrook/qqq-maven-registry</url>
-      </repository>
-   </distributionManagement>
-
 </project>
diff --git a/qqq-middleware-javalin/.circleci/config.yml b/qqq-middleware-javalin/.circleci/config.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 658f75d1..00000000
--- a/qqq-middleware-javalin/.circleci/config.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,79 +0,0 @@
-version: 2.1
-
-executors:
-  java17:
-    docker:
-      - image: 'cimg/openjdk:17.0'
-    resource_class: small
-
-orbs:
-  slack: circleci/slack@4.10.1
-
-commands:
-  run_maven:
-    parameters:
-      maven_subcommand:
-        default: test
-        type: string
-    steps:
-      - checkout
-      - restore_cache:
-          keys:
-            - v1-dependencies-{{ checksum "pom.xml" }}
-      - run:
-          name: Run Maven
-          command: |
-            mvn -s .circleci/mvn-settings.xml << parameters.maven_subcommand >>
-      - store_artifacts:
-          path: target/site/jacoco
-      - run:
-          name: Save test results
-          command: |
-            mkdir -p ~/test-results/junit/
-            find . -type f -regex ".*/target/surefire-reports/.*xml" -exec cp {} ~/test-results/junit/ \;
-          when: always
-      - store_test_results:
-          path: ~/test-results
-      - save_cache:
-          paths:
-            - ~/.m2
-          key: v1-dependencies-{{ checksum "pom.xml" }}
-
-jobs:
-  mvn_test:
-    executor: java17
-    steps:
-      - run_maven:
-          maven_subcommand: verify
-      - slack/notify:
-          event: fail
-
-  mvn_deploy:
-    executor: java17
-    steps:
-      - run_maven:
-          maven_subcommand: deploy
-      - slack/notify:
-          event: always
-
-workflows:
-  test_only:
-    jobs:
-      - mvn_test:
-          context: [ qqq-maven-registry-credentials, kingsrook-slack ]
-          filters:
-            branches:
-              ignore: /dev/
-            tags:
-              ignore: /(version|snapshot)-.*/
-
-  deploy:
-    jobs:
-      - mvn_deploy:
-          context: [ qqq-maven-registry-credentials, kingsrook-slack ]
-          filters:
-            branches:
-              only: /dev/
-            tags:
-              only: /(version|snapshot)-.*/
-
diff --git a/qqq-middleware-javalin/.circleci/mvn-settings.xml b/qqq-middleware-javalin/.circleci/mvn-settings.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index b2a345f0..00000000
--- a/qqq-middleware-javalin/.circleci/mvn-settings.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-<settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">
-    <servers>
-        <server>
-            <id>github-qqq-maven-registry</id>
-            <username>${env.QQQ_MAVEN_REGISTRY_USERNAME}</username>
-            <password>${env.QQQ_MAVEN_REGISTRY_PASSWORD}</password>
-        </server>
-    </servers>
-</settings>
diff --git a/qqq-middleware-javalin/checkstyle.xml b/qqq-middleware-javalin/checkstyle.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index f5e7412d..00000000
--- a/qqq-middleware-javalin/checkstyle.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,265 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0"?>
-<!--
-  ~ QQQ - Low-code Application Framework for Engineers.
-  ~ Copyright (C) 2021-2022.  Kingsrook, LLC
-  ~ 651 N Broad St Ste 205 # 6917 | Middletown DE 19709 | United States
-  ~ contact@kingsrook.com
-  ~ https://github.com/Kingsrook/
-  ~
-  ~ This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-  ~ it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
-  ~ published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
-  ~ License, or (at your option) any later version.
-  ~
-  ~ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-  ~ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-  ~ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-  ~ GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
-  ~
-  ~ You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
-  ~ along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-  -->
-
-<!DOCTYPE module PUBLIC
-        "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Check Configuration 1.3//EN"
-        "http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/dtds/configuration_1_3.dtd">
-<!--
-   See reference at https://checkstyle.sourceforge.io/checks.html
--->
-<module name = "Checker">
-   <property name="charset" value="UTF-8"/>
-
-   <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-
-   <property name="fileExtensions" value="java, properties, xml"/>
-   <!-- Checks for whitespace                        -->
-   <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_whitespace.html -->
-   <module name="FileTabCharacter">
-      <property name="eachLine" value="true"/>
-   </module>
-
-   <!--
-   <module name="LineLength">
-      <property name="max" value="100"/>
-      <property name="ignorePattern" value="^package.*|^import.*|a href|href|http://|https://|ftp://"/>
-   </module>
-   -->
-
-   <module name="TreeWalker">
-      <module name="SuppressWarningsHolder"/>
-      <module name="OuterTypeFilename"/>
-      <module name="IllegalTokenText">
-         <property name="tokens" value="STRING_LITERAL, CHAR_LITERAL"/>
-         <property name="format" value="\\u00(09|0(a|A)|0(c|C)|0(d|D)|22|27|5(C|c))|\\(0(10|11|12|14|15|42|47)|134)"/>
-         <property name="message" value="Consider using special escape sequence instead of octal value or Unicode escaped value."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="AvoidEscapedUnicodeCharacters">
-         <property name="allowEscapesForControlCharacters" value="true"/>
-         <property name="allowByTailComment" value="true"/>
-         <property name="allowNonPrintableEscapes" value="true"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="AvoidStarImport"/>
-      <module name="OneTopLevelClass"/>
-      <module name="NoLineWrap"/>
-      <module name="EmptyBlock">
-         <property name="option" value="TEXT"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="LITERAL_TRY, LITERAL_FINALLY, LITERAL_IF, LITERAL_ELSE, LITERAL_SWITCH"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="NeedBraces"/>
-      <module name="LeftCurly">
-         <property name="option" value="nl"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="RightCurly">
-         <property name="option" value="alone"/>
-      </module>
-      <!--
-      <module name="WhitespaceAround">
-         <property name="allowEmptyConstructors" value="true"/>
-         <property name="allowEmptyMethods" value="true"/>
-         <property name="allowEmptyTypes" value="true"/>
-         <property name="allowEmptyLoops" value="true"/>
-         <message key="ws.notFollowed"
-          value="WhitespaceAround: ''{0}'' is not followed by whitespace. Empty blocks may only be represented as '{}' when not part of a multi-block statement (4.1.3)"/>
-          <message key="ws.notPreceded"
-          value="WhitespaceAround: ''{0}'' is not preceded with whitespace."/>
-      </module>
-      -->
-      <module name="OneStatementPerLine"/>
-      <module name="MultipleVariableDeclarations"/>
-      <module name="ArrayTypeStyle"/>
-      <module name="MissingSwitchDefault"/>
-      <module name="FallThrough"/>
-      <module name="UpperEll"/>
-      <module name="ModifierOrder"/>
-      <module name="EmptyLineSeparator">
-         <property name="allowNoEmptyLineBetweenFields" value="true"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="SeparatorWrap">
-         <property name="id" value="SeparatorWrapDot"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="DOT"/>
-         <property name="option" value="nl"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="SeparatorWrap">
-         <property name="id" value="SeparatorWrapComma"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="COMMA"/>
-         <property name="option" value="EOL"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="SeparatorWrap">
-         <!-- ELLIPSIS is EOL until https://github.com/google/styleguide/issues/258 -->
-         <property name="id" value="SeparatorWrapEllipsis"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="ELLIPSIS"/>
-         <property name="option" value="EOL"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="SeparatorWrap">
-         <!-- ARRAY_DECLARATOR is EOL until https://github.com/google/styleguide/issues/259 -->
-         <property name="id" value="SeparatorWrapArrayDeclarator"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="ARRAY_DECLARATOR"/>
-         <property name="option" value="EOL"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="SeparatorWrap">
-         <property name="id" value="SeparatorWrapMethodRef"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="METHOD_REF"/>
-         <property name="option" value="nl"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="PackageName">
-         <property name="format" value="^[a-z]+(\.[a-z][a-z0-9]*)*$"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern"
-          value="Package name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="TypeName">
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern"
-          value="Type name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="MemberName">
-         <property name="format" value="^[_a-zA-Z]([a-z0-9A-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*)?$"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern" value="Member name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="ParameterName">
-         <property name="format" value="^[a-zA-Z]([a-z0-9A-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*)?$"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern" value="Parameter name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="CatchParameterName">
-         <property name="format" value="^[a-zA-Z]([a-z0-9A-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*)?$"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern" value="Catch parameter name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="LocalVariableName">
-         <property name="tokens" value="VARIABLE_DEF"/>
-         <property name="format" value="^[a-zA-Z]([a-z0-9A-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*)?$"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern" value="Local variable name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="ClassTypeParameterName">
-         <property name="format" value="(^[A-Z][0-9]?)$|([A-Z][_A-Z0-9]*$)"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern" value="Class type name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="MethodTypeParameterName">
-         <property name="format" value="(^[A-Z][0-9]?)$|([A-Z][_A-Z0-9]*$)"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern" value="Method type name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="InterfaceTypeParameterName">
-         <property name="format" value="(^[A-Z][0-9]?)$|([A-Z][_A-Z0-9]*$)"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern" value="Interface type name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="NoFinalizer"/>
-      <module name="GenericWhitespace">
-         <message key="ws.followed" value="GenericWhitespace ''{0}'' is followed by whitespace."/>
-         <message key="ws.preceded" value="GenericWhitespace ''{0}'' is preceded with whitespace."/>
-         <message key="ws.illegalFollow" value="GenericWhitespace ''{0}'' should followed by whitespace."/>
-         <message key="ws.notPreceded" value="GenericWhitespace ''{0}'' is not preceded with whitespace."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="Indentation">
-         <property name="basicOffset" value="3"/>
-         <property name="braceAdjustment" value="0"/>
-         <property name="caseIndent" value="3"/>
-         <property name="throwsIndent" value="6"/>
-         <property name="lineWrappingIndentation" value="3"/>
-         <property name="arrayInitIndent" value="6"/>
-      </module>
-      <!--
-      <module name="AbbreviationAsWordInName">
-         <property name="ignoreFinal" value="false"/>
-         <property name="allowedAbbreviationLength" value="1"/>
-      </module>
-      -->
-      <module name="OverloadMethodsDeclarationOrder"/>
-      <!--
-      <module name="VariableDeclarationUsageDistance"/>
-      <module name="CustomImportOrder">
-         <property name="sortImportsInGroupAlphabetically" value="true"/>
-         <property name="separateLineBetweenGroups" value="true"/>
-         <property name="customImportOrderRules" value="STATIC###THIRD_PARTY_PACKAGE"/>
-      </module>
-      -->
-      <module name="CustomImportOrder">
-         <property name="customImportOrderRules" value="SPECIAL_IMPORTS###STANDARD_JAVA_PACKAGE###THIRD_PARTY_PACKAGE###STATIC"/>
-         <property name="specialImportsRegExp" value="^javax\."/>
-         <property name="standardPackageRegExp" value="^java\."/>
-         <property name="sortImportsInGroupAlphabetically" value="true"/>
-         <property name="separateLineBetweenGroups" value="false"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="MethodParamPad"/>
-      <module name="NoWhitespaceBefore">
-         <property name="tokens" value="COMMA, SEMI, POST_INC, POST_DEC, DOT, ELLIPSIS, METHOD_REF"/>
-         <property name="allowLineBreaks" value="true"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="ParenPad"/>
-      <module name="OperatorWrap">
-         <property name="option" value="NL"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="BAND, BOR, BSR, BXOR, DIV, EQUAL, GE, GT, LAND, LE, LITERAL_INSTANCEOF, LOR, LT, MINUS, MOD, NOT_EQUAL, PLUS, QUESTION, SL, SR, STAR, METHOD_REF "/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="AnnotationLocation">
-         <property name="id" value="AnnotationLocationMostCases"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="CLASS_DEF, INTERFACE_DEF, ENUM_DEF, METHOD_DEF, CTOR_DEF"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="AnnotationLocation">
-         <property name="id" value="AnnotationLocationVariables"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="VARIABLE_DEF"/>
-         <property name="allowSamelineMultipleAnnotations" value="true"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="NonEmptyAtclauseDescription"/>
-      <!-- <module name="JavadocTagContinuationIndentation"/> -->
-      <!--
-      <module name="SummaryJavadoc">
-         <property name="forbiddenSummaryFragments" value="^@return the *|^This method returns |^A [{]@code [a-zA-Z0-9]+[}]( is a )"/>
-      </module>
-      -->
-      <!-- <module name="JavadocParagraph"/> -->
-      <module name="AtclauseOrder">
-         <property name="tagOrder" value="@param, @return, @throws, @deprecated"/>
-         <property name="target" value="CLASS_DEF, INTERFACE_DEF, ENUM_DEF, METHOD_DEF, CTOR_DEF, VARIABLE_DEF"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="JavadocMethod">
-         <property name="allowMissingParamTags" value="true"/>
-         <property name="allowMissingReturnTag" value="true"/>
-         <property name="allowedAnnotations" value="Override, Test"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="MissingJavadocMethod">
-         <property name="scope" value="private"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="MethodName">
-         <property name="format" value="^[a-z][a-zA-Z0-9_]*$"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern"
-          value="Method name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="SingleLineJavadoc">
-         <property name="ignoreInlineTags" value="false"/>
-      </module>
-
-      <module name="MagicNumber">
-         <property name="severity" value="info"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="NUM_DOUBLE, NUM_FLOAT, NUM_INT"/>
-         <property name="ignoreNumbers" value="0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8"/>
-         <property name="ignoreFieldDeclaration" value="true"/>
-         <property name="ignoreAnnotation" value="true"/>
-      </module>
-
-      <module name="EmptyCatchBlock">
-         <property name="exceptionVariableName" value="expected"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="CommentsIndentation"/>
-
-      <!-- this would be nice, but requires the the @inheritDoc javadoc tag... -->
-      <module name="MissingOverride"/>
-
-   </module>
-   <module name="SuppressWarningsFilter"/>
-</module>
diff --git a/qqq-middleware-javalin/pom.xml b/qqq-middleware-javalin/pom.xml
index 9c530b97..9de49afb 100644
--- a/qqq-middleware-javalin/pom.xml
+++ b/qqq-middleware-javalin/pom.xml
@@ -23,29 +23,17 @@
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
-   <groupId>com.kingsrook.qqq</groupId>
    <artifactId>qqq-middleware-javalin</artifactId>
-   <version>0.3.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
 
-   <scm>
-     <connection>scm:git:git@github.com:Kingsrook/qqq-middleware-javalin.git</connection>
-     <developerConnection>scm:git:git@github.com:Kingsrook/qqq-middleware-javalin.git</developerConnection>
-     <tag>HEAD</tag>
-   </scm>
+   <parent>
+      <groupId>com.kingsrook.qqq</groupId>
+      <artifactId>qqq-parent-project</artifactId>
+      <version>${revision}</version>
+   </parent>
 
    <properties>
       <!-- props specifically to this module -->
       <!-- none at this time -->
-
-      <!-- Common props for all qqq modules -->
-      <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-      <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
-      <maven.compiler.source>17</maven.compiler.source>
-      <maven.compiler.target>17</maven.compiler.target>
-      <maven.compiler.showDeprecation>true</maven.compiler.showDeprecation>
-      <maven.compiler.showWarnings>true</maven.compiler.showWarnings>
-      <coverage.haltOnFailure>true</coverage.haltOnFailure>
-      <coverage.instructionCoveredRatioMinimum>0.80</coverage.instructionCoveredRatioMinimum>
    </properties>
 
    <dependencies>
@@ -53,12 +41,12 @@
       <dependency>
          <groupId>com.kingsrook.qqq</groupId>
          <artifactId>qqq-backend-core</artifactId>
-         <version>0.2.0</version>
+         <version>${revision}</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
          <groupId>com.kingsrook.qqq</groupId>
          <artifactId>qqq-backend-module-rdbms</artifactId>
-         <version>0.2.0</version>
+         <version>${revision}</version>
          <scope>test</scope>
       </dependency>
 
@@ -85,202 +73,30 @@
          <artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>
          <version>1.7.36</version>
       </dependency>
-      <dependency>
-         <groupId>org.assertj</groupId>
-         <artifactId>assertj-core</artifactId>
-         <version>3.23.1</version>
-         <scope>test</scope>
-      </dependency>
 
       <!-- Common deps for all qqq modules -->
       <dependency>
          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
          <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
-         <version>3.1.2</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
          <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
          <artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
-         <version>2.17.2</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
          <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
          <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
-         <version>2.17.2</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
          <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
          <artifactId>junit-jupiter-engine</artifactId>
-         <version>5.8.2</version>
+         <scope>test</scope>
+      </dependency>
+      <dependency>
+         <groupId>org.assertj</groupId>
+         <artifactId>assertj-core</artifactId>
          <scope>test</scope>
       </dependency>
    </dependencies>
 
-   <build>
-      <plugins>
-         <!-- plugins specifically for this module -->
-         <!-- none at this time -->
-
-         <!-- Common plugins for all qqq modules -->
-         <plugin>
-            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-            <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>3.8.1</version>
-            <configuration>
-               <compilerArgument>-Xlint:unchecked</compilerArgument>
-            </configuration>
-         </plugin>
-         <plugin>
-            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-            <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>3.0.0-M5</version>
-            <configuration>
-               <argLine>@{jaCoCoArgLine}</argLine>
-            </configuration>
-         </plugin>
-         <plugin>
-            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-            <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>3.1.2</version>
-            <dependencies>
-               <dependency>
-                  <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
-                  <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-                  <version>9.0</version>
-               </dependency>
-            </dependencies>
-            <executions>
-               <execution>
-                  <id>validate</id>
-                  <phase>validate</phase>
-                  <configuration>
-                     <configLocation>checkstyle.xml</configLocation>
-                     <!-- <suppressionsLocation>checkstyle-suppressions.xml</suppressionsLocation> -->
-                     <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
-                     <consoleOutput>true</consoleOutput>
-                     <failsOnError>false</failsOnError>
-                     <failOnViolation>true</failOnViolation>
-                     <violationSeverity>warning</violationSeverity>
-                     <excludes>**/target/generated-sources/*.*</excludes>
-                     <!-- <linkXRef>false</linkXRef> -->
-                  </configuration>
-                  <goals>
-                     <goal>check</goal>
-                  </goals>
-               </execution>
-            </executions>
-         </plugin>
-         <plugin>
-            <groupId>com.amashchenko.maven.plugin</groupId>
-            <artifactId>gitflow-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>1.18.0</version>
-            <configuration>
-               <gitFlowConfig>
-                  <productionBranch>main</productionBranch>
-                  <developmentBranch>dev</developmentBranch>
-                  <versionTagPrefix>version-</versionTagPrefix>
-               </gitFlowConfig>
-               <skipFeatureVersion>true</skipFeatureVersion> <!-- Keep feature names out of versions -->
-               <postReleaseGoals>install</postReleaseGoals>  <!-- Let CI run deploys -->
-               <commitDevelopmentVersionAtStart>true</commitDevelopmentVersionAtStart>
-               <versionDigitToIncrement>1</versionDigitToIncrement> <!-- In general, we update the minor -->
-            </configuration>
-         </plugin>
-         <plugin>
-            <groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>
-            <artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>0.8.8</version>
-            <executions>
-               <execution>
-                  <id>pre-unit-test</id>
-                  <goals>
-                     <goal>prepare-agent</goal>
-                  </goals>
-                  <configuration>
-                     <propertyName>jaCoCoArgLine</propertyName>
-                  </configuration>
-               </execution>
-               <execution>
-                  <id>unit-test-check</id>
-                  <goals>
-                     <goal>check</goal>
-                  </goals>
-                  <configuration>
-                     <!-- Gives us the ability to pass a parameter to not fail due to coverage E.g. -Dcoverage.haltOnFailure=false -->
-                     <haltOnFailure>${coverage.haltOnFailure}</haltOnFailure>
-                     <rules>
-                        <rule>
-                           <element>BUNDLE</element>
-                           <limits>
-                              <limit>
-                                 <counter>INSTRUCTION</counter>
-                                 <value>COVEREDRATIO</value>
-                                 <minimum>${coverage.instructionCoveredRatioMinimum}</minimum>
-                              </limit>
-                           </limits>
-                        </rule>
-                     </rules>
-                  </configuration>
-               </execution>
-               <execution>
-                  <id>post-unit-test</id>
-                  <phase>verify</phase>
-                  <goals>
-                     <goal>report</goal>
-                  </goals>
-               </execution>
-            </executions>
-         </plugin>
-         <plugin>
-            <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-            <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
-            <version>3.0.0</version>
-            <executions>
-               <execution>
-                  <id>test-coverage-summary</id>
-                  <phase>verify</phase>
-                  <goals>
-                     <goal>exec</goal>
-                  </goals>
-                  <configuration>
-                     <executable>sh</executable>
-                     <arguments>
-                        <argument>-c</argument>
-                        <argument>
-                           <![CDATA[
-echo "Element\nInstructions Missed\nInstruction Coverage\nBranches Missed\nBranch Coverage\nComplexity Missed\nComplexity Hit\nLines Missed\nLines Hit\nMethods Missed\nMethods Hit\nClasses Missed\nClasses Hit\n" > /tmp/$$.headers
-xpath -q -e '/html/body/table/tfoot/tr[1]/td/text()' target/site/jacoco/index.html > /tmp/$$.values
-echo
-echo "Jacoco coverage summary report:"
-echo "   See also target/site/jacoco/index.html"
-echo "   and https://www.jacoco.org/jacoco/trunk/doc/counters.html"
-echo "------------------------------------------------------------"
-paste /tmp/$$.headers /tmp/$$.values | tail +2 | awk -v FS='\t' '{printf("%-20s %s\n",$1,$2)}'
-rm /tmp/$$.headers /tmp/$$.values
-                           ]]>
-                        </argument>
-                     </arguments>
-                  </configuration>
-               </execution>
-            </executions>
-         </plugin>
-      </plugins>
-   </build>
-
-   <repositories>
-      <repository>
-         <id>github-qqq-maven-registry</id>
-         <name>GitHub QQQ Maven Registry</name>
-         <url>https://maven.pkg.github.com/Kingsrook/qqq-maven-registry</url>
-      </repository>
-   </repositories>
-
-   <distributionManagement>
-      <repository>
-         <id>github-qqq-maven-registry</id>
-         <name>GitHub QQQ Maven Registry</name>
-         <url>https://maven.pkg.github.com/Kingsrook/qqq-maven-registry</url>
-      </repository>
-   </distributionManagement>
-
 </project>
diff --git a/qqq-middleware-picocli/.circleci/config.yml b/qqq-middleware-picocli/.circleci/config.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 658f75d1..00000000
--- a/qqq-middleware-picocli/.circleci/config.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,79 +0,0 @@
-version: 2.1
-
-executors:
-  java17:
-    docker:
-      - image: 'cimg/openjdk:17.0'
-    resource_class: small
-
-orbs:
-  slack: circleci/slack@4.10.1
-
-commands:
-  run_maven:
-    parameters:
-      maven_subcommand:
-        default: test
-        type: string
-    steps:
-      - checkout
-      - restore_cache:
-          keys:
-            - v1-dependencies-{{ checksum "pom.xml" }}
-      - run:
-          name: Run Maven
-          command: |
-            mvn -s .circleci/mvn-settings.xml << parameters.maven_subcommand >>
-      - store_artifacts:
-          path: target/site/jacoco
-      - run:
-          name: Save test results
-          command: |
-            mkdir -p ~/test-results/junit/
-            find . -type f -regex ".*/target/surefire-reports/.*xml" -exec cp {} ~/test-results/junit/ \;
-          when: always
-      - store_test_results:
-          path: ~/test-results
-      - save_cache:
-          paths:
-            - ~/.m2
-          key: v1-dependencies-{{ checksum "pom.xml" }}
-
-jobs:
-  mvn_test:
-    executor: java17
-    steps:
-      - run_maven:
-          maven_subcommand: verify
-      - slack/notify:
-          event: fail
-
-  mvn_deploy:
-    executor: java17
-    steps:
-      - run_maven:
-          maven_subcommand: deploy
-      - slack/notify:
-          event: always
-
-workflows:
-  test_only:
-    jobs:
-      - mvn_test:
-          context: [ qqq-maven-registry-credentials, kingsrook-slack ]
-          filters:
-            branches:
-              ignore: /dev/
-            tags:
-              ignore: /(version|snapshot)-.*/
-
-  deploy:
-    jobs:
-      - mvn_deploy:
-          context: [ qqq-maven-registry-credentials, kingsrook-slack ]
-          filters:
-            branches:
-              only: /dev/
-            tags:
-              only: /(version|snapshot)-.*/
-
diff --git a/qqq-middleware-picocli/.circleci/mvn-settings.xml b/qqq-middleware-picocli/.circleci/mvn-settings.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index b2a345f0..00000000
--- a/qqq-middleware-picocli/.circleci/mvn-settings.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-<settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">
-    <servers>
-        <server>
-            <id>github-qqq-maven-registry</id>
-            <username>${env.QQQ_MAVEN_REGISTRY_USERNAME}</username>
-            <password>${env.QQQ_MAVEN_REGISTRY_PASSWORD}</password>
-        </server>
-    </servers>
-</settings>
diff --git a/qqq-middleware-picocli/checkstyle.xml b/qqq-middleware-picocli/checkstyle.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index f5e7412d..00000000
--- a/qqq-middleware-picocli/checkstyle.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,265 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0"?>
-<!--
-  ~ QQQ - Low-code Application Framework for Engineers.
-  ~ Copyright (C) 2021-2022.  Kingsrook, LLC
-  ~ 651 N Broad St Ste 205 # 6917 | Middletown DE 19709 | United States
-  ~ contact@kingsrook.com
-  ~ https://github.com/Kingsrook/
-  ~
-  ~ This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-  ~ it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
-  ~ published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
-  ~ License, or (at your option) any later version.
-  ~
-  ~ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-  ~ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-  ~ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-  ~ GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
-  ~
-  ~ You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
-  ~ along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-  -->
-
-<!DOCTYPE module PUBLIC
-        "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Check Configuration 1.3//EN"
-        "http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/dtds/configuration_1_3.dtd">
-<!--
-   See reference at https://checkstyle.sourceforge.io/checks.html
--->
-<module name = "Checker">
-   <property name="charset" value="UTF-8"/>
-
-   <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-
-   <property name="fileExtensions" value="java, properties, xml"/>
-   <!-- Checks for whitespace                        -->
-   <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_whitespace.html -->
-   <module name="FileTabCharacter">
-      <property name="eachLine" value="true"/>
-   </module>
-
-   <!--
-   <module name="LineLength">
-      <property name="max" value="100"/>
-      <property name="ignorePattern" value="^package.*|^import.*|a href|href|http://|https://|ftp://"/>
-   </module>
-   -->
-
-   <module name="TreeWalker">
-      <module name="SuppressWarningsHolder"/>
-      <module name="OuterTypeFilename"/>
-      <module name="IllegalTokenText">
-         <property name="tokens" value="STRING_LITERAL, CHAR_LITERAL"/>
-         <property name="format" value="\\u00(09|0(a|A)|0(c|C)|0(d|D)|22|27|5(C|c))|\\(0(10|11|12|14|15|42|47)|134)"/>
-         <property name="message" value="Consider using special escape sequence instead of octal value or Unicode escaped value."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="AvoidEscapedUnicodeCharacters">
-         <property name="allowEscapesForControlCharacters" value="true"/>
-         <property name="allowByTailComment" value="true"/>
-         <property name="allowNonPrintableEscapes" value="true"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="AvoidStarImport"/>
-      <module name="OneTopLevelClass"/>
-      <module name="NoLineWrap"/>
-      <module name="EmptyBlock">
-         <property name="option" value="TEXT"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="LITERAL_TRY, LITERAL_FINALLY, LITERAL_IF, LITERAL_ELSE, LITERAL_SWITCH"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="NeedBraces"/>
-      <module name="LeftCurly">
-         <property name="option" value="nl"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="RightCurly">
-         <property name="option" value="alone"/>
-      </module>
-      <!--
-      <module name="WhitespaceAround">
-         <property name="allowEmptyConstructors" value="true"/>
-         <property name="allowEmptyMethods" value="true"/>
-         <property name="allowEmptyTypes" value="true"/>
-         <property name="allowEmptyLoops" value="true"/>
-         <message key="ws.notFollowed"
-          value="WhitespaceAround: ''{0}'' is not followed by whitespace. Empty blocks may only be represented as '{}' when not part of a multi-block statement (4.1.3)"/>
-          <message key="ws.notPreceded"
-          value="WhitespaceAround: ''{0}'' is not preceded with whitespace."/>
-      </module>
-      -->
-      <module name="OneStatementPerLine"/>
-      <module name="MultipleVariableDeclarations"/>
-      <module name="ArrayTypeStyle"/>
-      <module name="MissingSwitchDefault"/>
-      <module name="FallThrough"/>
-      <module name="UpperEll"/>
-      <module name="ModifierOrder"/>
-      <module name="EmptyLineSeparator">
-         <property name="allowNoEmptyLineBetweenFields" value="true"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="SeparatorWrap">
-         <property name="id" value="SeparatorWrapDot"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="DOT"/>
-         <property name="option" value="nl"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="SeparatorWrap">
-         <property name="id" value="SeparatorWrapComma"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="COMMA"/>
-         <property name="option" value="EOL"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="SeparatorWrap">
-         <!-- ELLIPSIS is EOL until https://github.com/google/styleguide/issues/258 -->
-         <property name="id" value="SeparatorWrapEllipsis"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="ELLIPSIS"/>
-         <property name="option" value="EOL"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="SeparatorWrap">
-         <!-- ARRAY_DECLARATOR is EOL until https://github.com/google/styleguide/issues/259 -->
-         <property name="id" value="SeparatorWrapArrayDeclarator"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="ARRAY_DECLARATOR"/>
-         <property name="option" value="EOL"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="SeparatorWrap">
-         <property name="id" value="SeparatorWrapMethodRef"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="METHOD_REF"/>
-         <property name="option" value="nl"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="PackageName">
-         <property name="format" value="^[a-z]+(\.[a-z][a-z0-9]*)*$"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern"
-          value="Package name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="TypeName">
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern"
-          value="Type name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="MemberName">
-         <property name="format" value="^[_a-zA-Z]([a-z0-9A-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*)?$"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern" value="Member name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="ParameterName">
-         <property name="format" value="^[a-zA-Z]([a-z0-9A-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*)?$"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern" value="Parameter name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="CatchParameterName">
-         <property name="format" value="^[a-zA-Z]([a-z0-9A-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*)?$"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern" value="Catch parameter name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="LocalVariableName">
-         <property name="tokens" value="VARIABLE_DEF"/>
-         <property name="format" value="^[a-zA-Z]([a-z0-9A-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*)?$"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern" value="Local variable name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="ClassTypeParameterName">
-         <property name="format" value="(^[A-Z][0-9]?)$|([A-Z][_A-Z0-9]*$)"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern" value="Class type name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="MethodTypeParameterName">
-         <property name="format" value="(^[A-Z][0-9]?)$|([A-Z][_A-Z0-9]*$)"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern" value="Method type name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="InterfaceTypeParameterName">
-         <property name="format" value="(^[A-Z][0-9]?)$|([A-Z][_A-Z0-9]*$)"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern" value="Interface type name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="NoFinalizer"/>
-      <module name="GenericWhitespace">
-         <message key="ws.followed" value="GenericWhitespace ''{0}'' is followed by whitespace."/>
-         <message key="ws.preceded" value="GenericWhitespace ''{0}'' is preceded with whitespace."/>
-         <message key="ws.illegalFollow" value="GenericWhitespace ''{0}'' should followed by whitespace."/>
-         <message key="ws.notPreceded" value="GenericWhitespace ''{0}'' is not preceded with whitespace."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="Indentation">
-         <property name="basicOffset" value="3"/>
-         <property name="braceAdjustment" value="0"/>
-         <property name="caseIndent" value="3"/>
-         <property name="throwsIndent" value="6"/>
-         <property name="lineWrappingIndentation" value="3"/>
-         <property name="arrayInitIndent" value="6"/>
-      </module>
-      <!--
-      <module name="AbbreviationAsWordInName">
-         <property name="ignoreFinal" value="false"/>
-         <property name="allowedAbbreviationLength" value="1"/>
-      </module>
-      -->
-      <module name="OverloadMethodsDeclarationOrder"/>
-      <!--
-      <module name="VariableDeclarationUsageDistance"/>
-      <module name="CustomImportOrder">
-         <property name="sortImportsInGroupAlphabetically" value="true"/>
-         <property name="separateLineBetweenGroups" value="true"/>
-         <property name="customImportOrderRules" value="STATIC###THIRD_PARTY_PACKAGE"/>
-      </module>
-      -->
-      <module name="CustomImportOrder">
-         <property name="customImportOrderRules" value="SPECIAL_IMPORTS###STANDARD_JAVA_PACKAGE###THIRD_PARTY_PACKAGE###STATIC"/>
-         <property name="specialImportsRegExp" value="^javax\."/>
-         <property name="standardPackageRegExp" value="^java\."/>
-         <property name="sortImportsInGroupAlphabetically" value="true"/>
-         <property name="separateLineBetweenGroups" value="false"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="MethodParamPad"/>
-      <module name="NoWhitespaceBefore">
-         <property name="tokens" value="COMMA, SEMI, POST_INC, POST_DEC, DOT, ELLIPSIS, METHOD_REF"/>
-         <property name="allowLineBreaks" value="true"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="ParenPad"/>
-      <module name="OperatorWrap">
-         <property name="option" value="NL"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="BAND, BOR, BSR, BXOR, DIV, EQUAL, GE, GT, LAND, LE, LITERAL_INSTANCEOF, LOR, LT, MINUS, MOD, NOT_EQUAL, PLUS, QUESTION, SL, SR, STAR, METHOD_REF "/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="AnnotationLocation">
-         <property name="id" value="AnnotationLocationMostCases"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="CLASS_DEF, INTERFACE_DEF, ENUM_DEF, METHOD_DEF, CTOR_DEF"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="AnnotationLocation">
-         <property name="id" value="AnnotationLocationVariables"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="VARIABLE_DEF"/>
-         <property name="allowSamelineMultipleAnnotations" value="true"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="NonEmptyAtclauseDescription"/>
-      <!-- <module name="JavadocTagContinuationIndentation"/> -->
-      <!--
-      <module name="SummaryJavadoc">
-         <property name="forbiddenSummaryFragments" value="^@return the *|^This method returns |^A [{]@code [a-zA-Z0-9]+[}]( is a )"/>
-      </module>
-      -->
-      <!-- <module name="JavadocParagraph"/> -->
-      <module name="AtclauseOrder">
-         <property name="tagOrder" value="@param, @return, @throws, @deprecated"/>
-         <property name="target" value="CLASS_DEF, INTERFACE_DEF, ENUM_DEF, METHOD_DEF, CTOR_DEF, VARIABLE_DEF"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="JavadocMethod">
-         <property name="allowMissingParamTags" value="true"/>
-         <property name="allowMissingReturnTag" value="true"/>
-         <property name="allowedAnnotations" value="Override, Test"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="MissingJavadocMethod">
-         <property name="scope" value="private"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="MethodName">
-         <property name="format" value="^[a-z][a-zA-Z0-9_]*$"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern"
-          value="Method name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="SingleLineJavadoc">
-         <property name="ignoreInlineTags" value="false"/>
-      </module>
-
-      <module name="MagicNumber">
-         <property name="severity" value="info"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="NUM_DOUBLE, NUM_FLOAT, NUM_INT"/>
-         <property name="ignoreNumbers" value="0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8"/>
-         <property name="ignoreFieldDeclaration" value="true"/>
-         <property name="ignoreAnnotation" value="true"/>
-      </module>
-
-      <module name="EmptyCatchBlock">
-         <property name="exceptionVariableName" value="expected"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="CommentsIndentation"/>
-
-      <!-- this would be nice, but requires the the @inheritDoc javadoc tag... -->
-      <module name="MissingOverride"/>
-
-   </module>
-   <module name="SuppressWarningsFilter"/>
-</module>
diff --git a/qqq-middleware-picocli/pom.xml b/qqq-middleware-picocli/pom.xml
index 07414d4f..4eecb082 100644
--- a/qqq-middleware-picocli/pom.xml
+++ b/qqq-middleware-picocli/pom.xml
@@ -23,29 +23,17 @@
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
-   <groupId>com.kingsrook.qqq</groupId>
    <artifactId>qqq-middleware-picocli</artifactId>
-   <version>0.3.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
 
-   <scm>
-     <connection>scm:git:git@github.com:Kingsrook/qqq-middleware-picocli.git</connection>
-     <developerConnection>scm:git:git@github.com:Kingsrook/qqq-middleware-picocli.git</developerConnection>
-     <tag>HEAD</tag>
-   </scm>
+   <parent>
+      <groupId>com.kingsrook.qqq</groupId>
+      <artifactId>qqq-parent-project</artifactId>
+      <version>${revision}</version>
+   </parent>
 
    <properties>
       <!-- props specifically to this module -->
       <!-- none at this time -->
-
-      <!-- Common props for all qqq modules -->
-      <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-      <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
-      <maven.compiler.source>17</maven.compiler.source>
-      <maven.compiler.target>17</maven.compiler.target>
-      <maven.compiler.showDeprecation>true</maven.compiler.showDeprecation>
-      <maven.compiler.showWarnings>true</maven.compiler.showWarnings>
-      <coverage.haltOnFailure>true</coverage.haltOnFailure>
-      <coverage.instructionCoveredRatioMinimum>0.80</coverage.instructionCoveredRatioMinimum>
    </properties>
 
    <dependencies>
@@ -53,16 +41,15 @@
       <dependency>
          <groupId>com.kingsrook.qqq</groupId>
          <artifactId>qqq-backend-core</artifactId>
-         <version>0.2.0</version>
+         <version>${revision}</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
          <groupId>com.kingsrook.qqq</groupId>
          <artifactId>qqq-backend-module-rdbms</artifactId>
-         <version>0.2.0</version>
+         <version>${revision}</version>
          <scope>test</scope>
       </dependency>
 
-
       <!-- 3rd party deps specifically for this module -->
       <dependency>
          <groupId>info.picocli</groupId>
@@ -85,28 +72,23 @@
       <dependency>
          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
          <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
-         <version>3.1.2</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
          <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
          <artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
-         <version>2.17.1</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
          <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
          <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
-         <version>2.17.1</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
          <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
          <artifactId>junit-jupiter-engine</artifactId>
-         <version>5.8.1</version>
          <scope>test</scope>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
          <groupId>org.assertj</groupId>
          <artifactId>assertj-core</artifactId>
-         <version>3.23.1</version>
          <scope>test</scope>
       </dependency>
    </dependencies>
@@ -127,167 +109,7 @@
                </archive>
             </configuration>
          </plugin>
-
-         <!-- Common plugins for all qqq modules -->
-         <plugin>
-            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-            <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>3.8.1</version>
-            <configuration>
-               <compilerArgument>-Xlint:unchecked</compilerArgument>
-            </configuration>
-         </plugin>
-         <plugin>
-            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-            <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>3.0.0-M5</version>
-            <configuration>
-               <argLine>@{jaCoCoArgLine}</argLine>
-            </configuration>
-         </plugin>
-         <plugin>
-            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-            <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>3.1.2</version>
-            <dependencies>
-               <dependency>
-                  <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
-                  <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-                  <version>9.0</version>
-               </dependency>
-            </dependencies>
-            <executions>
-               <execution>
-                  <id>validate</id>
-                  <phase>validate</phase>
-                  <configuration>
-                     <configLocation>checkstyle.xml</configLocation>
-                     <!-- <suppressionsLocation>checkstyle-suppressions.xml</suppressionsLocation> -->
-                     <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
-                     <consoleOutput>true</consoleOutput>
-                     <failsOnError>false</failsOnError>
-                     <failOnViolation>true</failOnViolation>
-                     <violationSeverity>warning</violationSeverity>
-                     <excludes>**/target/generated-sources/*.*</excludes>
-                     <!-- <linkXRef>false</linkXRef> -->
-                  </configuration>
-                  <goals>
-                     <goal>check</goal>
-                  </goals>
-               </execution>
-            </executions>
-         </plugin>
-         <plugin>
-            <groupId>com.amashchenko.maven.plugin</groupId>
-            <artifactId>gitflow-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>1.18.0</version>
-            <configuration>
-               <gitFlowConfig>
-                  <productionBranch>main</productionBranch>
-                  <developmentBranch>dev</developmentBranch>
-                  <versionTagPrefix>version-</versionTagPrefix>
-               </gitFlowConfig>
-               <skipFeatureVersion>true</skipFeatureVersion> <!-- Keep feature names out of versions -->
-               <postReleaseGoals>install</postReleaseGoals>  <!-- Let CI run deploys -->
-               <commitDevelopmentVersionAtStart>true</commitDevelopmentVersionAtStart>
-               <versionDigitToIncrement>1</versionDigitToIncrement> <!-- In general, we update the minor -->
-            </configuration>
-         </plugin>
-         <plugin>
-            <groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>
-            <artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>0.8.8</version>
-            <executions>
-               <execution>
-                  <id>pre-unit-test</id>
-                  <goals>
-                     <goal>prepare-agent</goal>
-                  </goals>
-                  <configuration>
-                     <propertyName>jaCoCoArgLine</propertyName>
-                  </configuration>
-               </execution>
-               <execution>
-                  <id>unit-test-check</id>
-                  <goals>
-                     <goal>check</goal>
-                  </goals>
-                  <configuration>
-                     <!-- Gives us the ability to pass a parameter to not fail due to coverage E.g. -Dcoverage.haltOnFailure=false -->
-                     <haltOnFailure>${coverage.haltOnFailure}</haltOnFailure>
-                     <rules>
-                        <rule>
-                           <element>BUNDLE</element>
-                           <limits>
-                              <limit>
-                                 <counter>INSTRUCTION</counter>
-                                 <value>COVEREDRATIO</value>
-                                 <minimum>${coverage.instructionCoveredRatioMinimum}</minimum>
-                              </limit>
-                           </limits>
-                        </rule>
-                     </rules>
-                  </configuration>
-               </execution>
-               <execution>
-                  <id>post-unit-test</id>
-                  <phase>verify</phase>
-                  <goals>
-                     <goal>report</goal>
-                  </goals>
-               </execution>
-            </executions>
-         </plugin>
-         <plugin>
-            <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-            <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
-            <version>3.0.0</version>
-            <executions>
-               <execution>
-                  <id>test-coverage-summary</id>
-                  <phase>verify</phase>
-                  <goals>
-                     <goal>exec</goal>
-                  </goals>
-                  <configuration>
-                     <executable>sh</executable>
-                     <arguments>
-                        <argument>-c</argument>
-                        <argument>
-                           <![CDATA[
-echo "Element\nInstructions Missed\nInstruction Coverage\nBranches Missed\nBranch Coverage\nComplexity Missed\nComplexity Hit\nLines Missed\nLines Hit\nMethods Missed\nMethods Hit\nClasses Missed\nClasses Hit\n" > /tmp/$$.headers
-xpath -q -e '/html/body/table/tfoot/tr[1]/td/text()' target/site/jacoco/index.html > /tmp/$$.values
-echo
-echo "Jacoco coverage summary report:"
-echo "   See also target/site/jacoco/index.html"
-echo "   and https://www.jacoco.org/jacoco/trunk/doc/counters.html"
-echo "------------------------------------------------------------"
-paste /tmp/$$.headers /tmp/$$.values | tail +2 | awk -v FS='\t' '{printf("%-20s %s\n",$1,$2)}'
-rm /tmp/$$.headers /tmp/$$.values
-                           ]]>
-                        </argument>
-                     </arguments>
-                  </configuration>
-               </execution>
-            </executions>
-         </plugin>
       </plugins>
    </build>
 
-   <repositories>
-      <repository>
-         <id>github-qqq-maven-registry</id>
-         <name>GitHub QQQ Maven Registry</name>
-         <url>https://maven.pkg.github.com/Kingsrook/qqq-maven-registry</url>
-      </repository>
-   </repositories>
-
-   <distributionManagement>
-      <repository>
-         <id>github-qqq-maven-registry</id>
-         <name>GitHub QQQ Maven Registry</name>
-         <url>https://maven.pkg.github.com/Kingsrook/qqq-maven-registry</url>
-      </repository>
-   </distributionManagement>
-
 </project>
diff --git a/qqq-sample-project/.circleci/config.yml b/qqq-sample-project/.circleci/config.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index a35d7951..00000000
--- a/qqq-sample-project/.circleci/config.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,66 +0,0 @@
-## Deviations from qqq-java library standard circleci config:
-## - In this project, we just always run a test, never a deploy (at this time).
-version: 2.1
-
-executors:
-  java17:
-    docker:
-      - image: 'cimg/openjdk:17.0'
-    resource_class: small
-
-orbs:
-  slack: circleci/slack@4.10.1
-
-commands:
-  run_maven:
-    parameters:
-      maven_subcommand:
-        default: test
-        type: string
-    steps:
-      - checkout
-      - restore_cache:
-          keys:
-            - v1-dependencies-{{ checksum "pom.xml" }}
-      - run:
-          name: Run Maven
-          command: |
-            mvn -s .circleci/mvn-settings.xml << parameters.maven_subcommand >>
-      - store_artifacts:
-          path: target/site/jacoco
-      - run:
-          name: Save test results
-          command: |
-            mkdir -p ~/test-results/junit/
-            find . -type f -regex ".*/target/surefire-reports/.*xml" -exec cp {} ~/test-results/junit/ \;
-          when: always
-      - store_test_results:
-          path: ~/test-results
-      - save_cache:
-          paths:
-            - ~/.m2
-          key: v1-dependencies-{{ checksum "pom.xml" }}
-
-jobs:
-  mvn_test:
-    executor: java17
-    steps:
-      - run_maven:
-          maven_subcommand: verify
-      - slack/notify:
-          event: fail
-
-  mvn_deploy:
-    executor: java17
-    steps:
-      - run_maven:
-          maven_subcommand: deploy
-      - slack/notify:
-          event: always
-
-workflows:
-  test_only:
-    jobs:
-      - mvn_test:
-          context: [ qqq-maven-registry-credentials, kingsrook-slack ]
-
diff --git a/qqq-sample-project/.circleci/mvn-settings.xml b/qqq-sample-project/.circleci/mvn-settings.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index b2a345f0..00000000
--- a/qqq-sample-project/.circleci/mvn-settings.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-<settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">
-    <servers>
-        <server>
-            <id>github-qqq-maven-registry</id>
-            <username>${env.QQQ_MAVEN_REGISTRY_USERNAME}</username>
-            <password>${env.QQQ_MAVEN_REGISTRY_PASSWORD}</password>
-        </server>
-    </servers>
-</settings>
diff --git a/qqq-sample-project/checkstyle.xml b/qqq-sample-project/checkstyle.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index f5e7412d..00000000
--- a/qqq-sample-project/checkstyle.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,265 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0"?>
-<!--
-  ~ QQQ - Low-code Application Framework for Engineers.
-  ~ Copyright (C) 2021-2022.  Kingsrook, LLC
-  ~ 651 N Broad St Ste 205 # 6917 | Middletown DE 19709 | United States
-  ~ contact@kingsrook.com
-  ~ https://github.com/Kingsrook/
-  ~
-  ~ This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-  ~ it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
-  ~ published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
-  ~ License, or (at your option) any later version.
-  ~
-  ~ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-  ~ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-  ~ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-  ~ GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
-  ~
-  ~ You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
-  ~ along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-  -->
-
-<!DOCTYPE module PUBLIC
-        "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Check Configuration 1.3//EN"
-        "http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/dtds/configuration_1_3.dtd">
-<!--
-   See reference at https://checkstyle.sourceforge.io/checks.html
--->
-<module name = "Checker">
-   <property name="charset" value="UTF-8"/>
-
-   <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
-
-   <property name="fileExtensions" value="java, properties, xml"/>
-   <!-- Checks for whitespace                        -->
-   <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_whitespace.html -->
-   <module name="FileTabCharacter">
-      <property name="eachLine" value="true"/>
-   </module>
-
-   <!--
-   <module name="LineLength">
-      <property name="max" value="100"/>
-      <property name="ignorePattern" value="^package.*|^import.*|a href|href|http://|https://|ftp://"/>
-   </module>
-   -->
-
-   <module name="TreeWalker">
-      <module name="SuppressWarningsHolder"/>
-      <module name="OuterTypeFilename"/>
-      <module name="IllegalTokenText">
-         <property name="tokens" value="STRING_LITERAL, CHAR_LITERAL"/>
-         <property name="format" value="\\u00(09|0(a|A)|0(c|C)|0(d|D)|22|27|5(C|c))|\\(0(10|11|12|14|15|42|47)|134)"/>
-         <property name="message" value="Consider using special escape sequence instead of octal value or Unicode escaped value."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="AvoidEscapedUnicodeCharacters">
-         <property name="allowEscapesForControlCharacters" value="true"/>
-         <property name="allowByTailComment" value="true"/>
-         <property name="allowNonPrintableEscapes" value="true"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="AvoidStarImport"/>
-      <module name="OneTopLevelClass"/>
-      <module name="NoLineWrap"/>
-      <module name="EmptyBlock">
-         <property name="option" value="TEXT"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="LITERAL_TRY, LITERAL_FINALLY, LITERAL_IF, LITERAL_ELSE, LITERAL_SWITCH"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="NeedBraces"/>
-      <module name="LeftCurly">
-         <property name="option" value="nl"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="RightCurly">
-         <property name="option" value="alone"/>
-      </module>
-      <!--
-      <module name="WhitespaceAround">
-         <property name="allowEmptyConstructors" value="true"/>
-         <property name="allowEmptyMethods" value="true"/>
-         <property name="allowEmptyTypes" value="true"/>
-         <property name="allowEmptyLoops" value="true"/>
-         <message key="ws.notFollowed"
-          value="WhitespaceAround: ''{0}'' is not followed by whitespace. Empty blocks may only be represented as '{}' when not part of a multi-block statement (4.1.3)"/>
-          <message key="ws.notPreceded"
-          value="WhitespaceAround: ''{0}'' is not preceded with whitespace."/>
-      </module>
-      -->
-      <module name="OneStatementPerLine"/>
-      <module name="MultipleVariableDeclarations"/>
-      <module name="ArrayTypeStyle"/>
-      <module name="MissingSwitchDefault"/>
-      <module name="FallThrough"/>
-      <module name="UpperEll"/>
-      <module name="ModifierOrder"/>
-      <module name="EmptyLineSeparator">
-         <property name="allowNoEmptyLineBetweenFields" value="true"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="SeparatorWrap">
-         <property name="id" value="SeparatorWrapDot"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="DOT"/>
-         <property name="option" value="nl"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="SeparatorWrap">
-         <property name="id" value="SeparatorWrapComma"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="COMMA"/>
-         <property name="option" value="EOL"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="SeparatorWrap">
-         <!-- ELLIPSIS is EOL until https://github.com/google/styleguide/issues/258 -->
-         <property name="id" value="SeparatorWrapEllipsis"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="ELLIPSIS"/>
-         <property name="option" value="EOL"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="SeparatorWrap">
-         <!-- ARRAY_DECLARATOR is EOL until https://github.com/google/styleguide/issues/259 -->
-         <property name="id" value="SeparatorWrapArrayDeclarator"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="ARRAY_DECLARATOR"/>
-         <property name="option" value="EOL"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="SeparatorWrap">
-         <property name="id" value="SeparatorWrapMethodRef"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="METHOD_REF"/>
-         <property name="option" value="nl"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="PackageName">
-         <property name="format" value="^[a-z]+(\.[a-z][a-z0-9]*)*$"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern"
-          value="Package name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="TypeName">
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern"
-          value="Type name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="MemberName">
-         <property name="format" value="^[_a-zA-Z]([a-z0-9A-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*)?$"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern" value="Member name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="ParameterName">
-         <property name="format" value="^[a-zA-Z]([a-z0-9A-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*)?$"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern" value="Parameter name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="CatchParameterName">
-         <property name="format" value="^[a-zA-Z]([a-z0-9A-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*)?$"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern" value="Catch parameter name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="LocalVariableName">
-         <property name="tokens" value="VARIABLE_DEF"/>
-         <property name="format" value="^[a-zA-Z]([a-z0-9A-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*)?$"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern" value="Local variable name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="ClassTypeParameterName">
-         <property name="format" value="(^[A-Z][0-9]?)$|([A-Z][_A-Z0-9]*$)"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern" value="Class type name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="MethodTypeParameterName">
-         <property name="format" value="(^[A-Z][0-9]?)$|([A-Z][_A-Z0-9]*$)"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern" value="Method type name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="InterfaceTypeParameterName">
-         <property name="format" value="(^[A-Z][0-9]?)$|([A-Z][_A-Z0-9]*$)"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern" value="Interface type name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="NoFinalizer"/>
-      <module name="GenericWhitespace">
-         <message key="ws.followed" value="GenericWhitespace ''{0}'' is followed by whitespace."/>
-         <message key="ws.preceded" value="GenericWhitespace ''{0}'' is preceded with whitespace."/>
-         <message key="ws.illegalFollow" value="GenericWhitespace ''{0}'' should followed by whitespace."/>
-         <message key="ws.notPreceded" value="GenericWhitespace ''{0}'' is not preceded with whitespace."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="Indentation">
-         <property name="basicOffset" value="3"/>
-         <property name="braceAdjustment" value="0"/>
-         <property name="caseIndent" value="3"/>
-         <property name="throwsIndent" value="6"/>
-         <property name="lineWrappingIndentation" value="3"/>
-         <property name="arrayInitIndent" value="6"/>
-      </module>
-      <!--
-      <module name="AbbreviationAsWordInName">
-         <property name="ignoreFinal" value="false"/>
-         <property name="allowedAbbreviationLength" value="1"/>
-      </module>
-      -->
-      <module name="OverloadMethodsDeclarationOrder"/>
-      <!--
-      <module name="VariableDeclarationUsageDistance"/>
-      <module name="CustomImportOrder">
-         <property name="sortImportsInGroupAlphabetically" value="true"/>
-         <property name="separateLineBetweenGroups" value="true"/>
-         <property name="customImportOrderRules" value="STATIC###THIRD_PARTY_PACKAGE"/>
-      </module>
-      -->
-      <module name="CustomImportOrder">
-         <property name="customImportOrderRules" value="SPECIAL_IMPORTS###STANDARD_JAVA_PACKAGE###THIRD_PARTY_PACKAGE###STATIC"/>
-         <property name="specialImportsRegExp" value="^javax\."/>
-         <property name="standardPackageRegExp" value="^java\."/>
-         <property name="sortImportsInGroupAlphabetically" value="true"/>
-         <property name="separateLineBetweenGroups" value="false"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="MethodParamPad"/>
-      <module name="NoWhitespaceBefore">
-         <property name="tokens" value="COMMA, SEMI, POST_INC, POST_DEC, DOT, ELLIPSIS, METHOD_REF"/>
-         <property name="allowLineBreaks" value="true"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="ParenPad"/>
-      <module name="OperatorWrap">
-         <property name="option" value="NL"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="BAND, BOR, BSR, BXOR, DIV, EQUAL, GE, GT, LAND, LE, LITERAL_INSTANCEOF, LOR, LT, MINUS, MOD, NOT_EQUAL, PLUS, QUESTION, SL, SR, STAR, METHOD_REF "/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="AnnotationLocation">
-         <property name="id" value="AnnotationLocationMostCases"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="CLASS_DEF, INTERFACE_DEF, ENUM_DEF, METHOD_DEF, CTOR_DEF"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="AnnotationLocation">
-         <property name="id" value="AnnotationLocationVariables"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="VARIABLE_DEF"/>
-         <property name="allowSamelineMultipleAnnotations" value="true"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="NonEmptyAtclauseDescription"/>
-      <!-- <module name="JavadocTagContinuationIndentation"/> -->
-      <!--
-      <module name="SummaryJavadoc">
-         <property name="forbiddenSummaryFragments" value="^@return the *|^This method returns |^A [{]@code [a-zA-Z0-9]+[}]( is a )"/>
-      </module>
-      -->
-      <!-- <module name="JavadocParagraph"/> -->
-      <module name="AtclauseOrder">
-         <property name="tagOrder" value="@param, @return, @throws, @deprecated"/>
-         <property name="target" value="CLASS_DEF, INTERFACE_DEF, ENUM_DEF, METHOD_DEF, CTOR_DEF, VARIABLE_DEF"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="JavadocMethod">
-         <property name="allowMissingParamTags" value="true"/>
-         <property name="allowMissingReturnTag" value="true"/>
-         <property name="allowedAnnotations" value="Override, Test"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="MissingJavadocMethod">
-         <property name="scope" value="private"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="MethodName">
-         <property name="format" value="^[a-z][a-zA-Z0-9_]*$"/>
-         <message key="name.invalidPattern"
-          value="Method name ''{0}'' must match pattern ''{1}''."/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="SingleLineJavadoc">
-         <property name="ignoreInlineTags" value="false"/>
-      </module>
-
-      <module name="MagicNumber">
-         <property name="severity" value="info"/>
-         <property name="tokens" value="NUM_DOUBLE, NUM_FLOAT, NUM_INT"/>
-         <property name="ignoreNumbers" value="0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8"/>
-         <property name="ignoreFieldDeclaration" value="true"/>
-         <property name="ignoreAnnotation" value="true"/>
-      </module>
-
-      <module name="EmptyCatchBlock">
-         <property name="exceptionVariableName" value="expected"/>
-      </module>
-      <module name="CommentsIndentation"/>
-
-      <!-- this would be nice, but requires the the @inheritDoc javadoc tag... -->
-      <module name="MissingOverride"/>
-
-   </module>
-   <module name="SuppressWarningsFilter"/>
-</module>
diff --git a/qqq-sample-project/pom.xml b/qqq-sample-project/pom.xml
index 06ff5538..2808ec54 100644
--- a/qqq-sample-project/pom.xml
+++ b/qqq-sample-project/pom.xml
@@ -25,23 +25,17 @@
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
-   <groupId>com.kingsrook.qqq</groupId>
    <artifactId>qqq-sample-project</artifactId>
-   <version>0.2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+
+   <parent>
+      <groupId>com.kingsrook.qqq</groupId>
+      <artifactId>qqq-parent-project</artifactId>
+      <version>${revision}</version>
+   </parent>
 
    <properties>
       <!-- props specifically to this module -->
       <!-- none at this time -->
-
-      <!-- Common props for all qqq modules -->
-      <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-      <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
-      <maven.compiler.source>17</maven.compiler.source>
-      <maven.compiler.target>17</maven.compiler.target>
-      <maven.compiler.showDeprecation>true</maven.compiler.showDeprecation>
-      <maven.compiler.showWarnings>true</maven.compiler.showWarnings>
-      <coverage.haltOnFailure>true</coverage.haltOnFailure>
-      <coverage.instructionCoveredRatioMinimum>0.75</coverage.instructionCoveredRatioMinimum>
    </properties>
 
    <dependencies>
@@ -49,51 +43,53 @@
       <dependency>
          <groupId>com.kingsrook.qqq</groupId>
          <artifactId>qqq-backend-core</artifactId>
-         <version>0.2.0-20220726.214150-15</version>
+         <version>${revision}</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
          <groupId>com.kingsrook.qqq</groupId>
          <artifactId>qqq-backend-module-rdbms</artifactId>
-         <version>0.2.0-20220726.214633-12</version>
+         <version>${revision}</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
          <groupId>com.kingsrook.qqq</groupId>
          <artifactId>qqq-backend-module-filesystem</artifactId>
-         <version>0.2.0-20220726.215110-8</version>
+         <version>${revision}</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
          <groupId>com.kingsrook.qqq</groupId>
          <artifactId>qqq-middleware-javalin</artifactId>
-         <version>0.2.0-20220726.215233-6</version>
+         <version>${revision}</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
          <groupId>com.kingsrook.qqq</groupId>
          <artifactId>qqq-middleware-picocli</artifactId>
-         <version>0.2.0-20220726.215232-6</version>
+         <version>${revision}</version>
       </dependency>
 
       <!-- 3rd party deps specifically for this module -->
+      <!-- none at this time -->
 
       <!-- Common deps for all qqq modules -->
       <dependency>
          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
          <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
-         <version>3.1.2</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
          <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
          <artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
-         <version>2.17.2</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
          <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
          <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
-         <version>2.17.2</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
          <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
          <artifactId>junit-jupiter-engine</artifactId>
-         <version>5.8.2</version>
+         <scope>test</scope>
+      </dependency>
+      <dependency>
+         <groupId>org.assertj</groupId>
+         <artifactId>assertj-core</artifactId>
          <scope>test</scope>
       </dependency>
    </dependencies>
@@ -114,156 +110,7 @@
                </archive>
             </configuration>
          </plugin>
-         <plugin>
-            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-            <artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>3.2.0</version>
-         </plugin>
-
-         <!-- Common plugins for all qqq modules -->
-         <plugin>
-            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-            <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>3.8.1</version>
-            <configuration>
-               <compilerArgument>-Xlint:unchecked</compilerArgument>
-            </configuration>
-         </plugin>
-         <plugin>
-            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-            <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>3.0.0-M5</version>
-            <configuration>
-               <argLine>@{jaCoCoArgLine}</argLine>
-            </configuration>
-         </plugin>
-         <plugin>
-            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-            <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>3.1.2</version>
-            <dependencies>
-               <dependency>
-                  <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
-                  <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-                  <version>9.0</version>
-               </dependency>
-            </dependencies>
-            <executions>
-               <execution>
-                  <id>validate</id>
-                  <phase>validate</phase>
-                  <configuration>
-                     <configLocation>checkstyle.xml</configLocation>
-                     <!-- <suppressionsLocation>checkstyle-suppressions.xml</suppressionsLocation> -->
-                     <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
-                     <consoleOutput>true</consoleOutput>
-                     <failsOnError>false</failsOnError>
-                     <failOnViolation>true</failOnViolation>
-                     <violationSeverity>warning</violationSeverity>
-                     <excludes>**/target/generated-sources/*.*</excludes>
-                     <!-- <linkXRef>false</linkXRef> -->
-                  </configuration>
-                  <goals>
-                     <goal>check</goal>
-                  </goals>
-               </execution>
-            </executions>
-         </plugin>
-         <plugin>
-            <groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>
-            <artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>0.8.8</version>
-            <executions>
-               <execution>
-                  <id>pre-unit-test</id>
-                  <goals>
-                     <goal>prepare-agent</goal>
-                  </goals>
-                  <configuration>
-                     <propertyName>jaCoCoArgLine</propertyName>
-                  </configuration>
-               </execution>
-               <execution>
-                  <id>unit-test-check</id>
-                  <goals>
-                     <goal>check</goal>
-                  </goals>
-                  <configuration>
-                     <!-- Gives us the ability to pass a parameter to not fail due to coverage E.g. -Dcoverage.haltOnFailure=false -->
-                     <haltOnFailure>${coverage.haltOnFailure}</haltOnFailure>
-                     <rules>
-                        <rule>
-                           <element>BUNDLE</element>
-                           <limits>
-                              <limit>
-                                 <counter>INSTRUCTION</counter>
-                                 <value>COVEREDRATIO</value>
-                                 <minimum>${coverage.instructionCoveredRatioMinimum}</minimum>
-                              </limit>
-                           </limits>
-                        </rule>
-                     </rules>
-                  </configuration>
-               </execution>
-               <execution>
-                  <id>post-unit-test</id>
-                  <phase>verify</phase>
-                  <goals>
-                     <goal>report</goal>
-                  </goals>
-               </execution>
-            </executions>
-         </plugin>
-         <plugin>
-            <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-            <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
-            <version>3.0.0</version>
-            <executions>
-               <execution>
-                  <id>test-coverage-summary</id>
-                  <phase>verify</phase>
-                  <goals>
-                     <goal>exec</goal>
-                  </goals>
-                  <configuration>
-                     <executable>sh</executable>
-                     <arguments>
-                        <argument>-c</argument>
-                        <argument>
-                           <![CDATA[
-echo "Element\nInstructions Missed\nInstruction Coverage\nBranches Missed\nBranch Coverage\nComplexity Missed\nComplexity Hit\nLines Missed\nLines Hit\nMethods Missed\nMethods Hit\nClasses Missed\nClasses Hit\n" > /tmp/$$.headers
-xpath -q -e '/html/body/table/tfoot/tr[1]/td/text()' target/site/jacoco/index.html > /tmp/$$.values
-echo
-echo "Jacoco coverage summary report:"
-echo "   See also target/site/jacoco/index.html"
-echo "   and https://www.jacoco.org/jacoco/trunk/doc/counters.html"
-echo "------------------------------------------------------------"
-paste /tmp/$$.headers /tmp/$$.values | tail +2 | awk -v FS='\t' '{printf("%-20s %s\n",$1,$2)}'
-rm /tmp/$$.headers /tmp/$$.values
-                           ]]>
-                        </argument>
-                     </arguments>
-                  </configuration>
-               </execution>
-            </executions>
-         </plugin>
       </plugins>
    </build>
 
-   <repositories>
-      <repository>
-         <id>github-qqq-maven-registry</id>
-         <name>GitHub QQQ Maven Registry</name>
-         <url>https://maven.pkg.github.com/Kingsrook/qqq-maven-registry</url>
-      </repository>
-   </repositories>
-
-   <distributionManagement>
-      <repository>
-         <id>github-qqq-maven-registry</id>
-         <name>GitHub QQQ Maven Registry</name>
-         <url>https://maven.pkg.github.com/Kingsrook/qqq-maven-registry</url>
-      </repository>
-   </distributionManagement>
-
 </project>