murq

Your first question might rightly be: What is a Murq?

Glad you asked.

My father-in-law coined his own word, Murquincho, loosely based on the Kichwa language of Ecuador. His definition: "to perform a trick." This seemed to describe exactly what I wanted this piece of software to do - a trick. There was only one problem. I was too lazy to type 'Murquincho' over and over. Thus, Murq was born.

The trick I designed Murq to perform was multifaceted. I wanted software that would:

Easily persist java objects without complex configuration or imposing superclasses
Be capable of storing arbitrary binary data and metadata that described it
Enable searching these objects without reliance upon a RDBMS backend
Allow for easy migration from one form of persistence to another
Make internationalization seamless

Lastly: Make easy things easy!