I was looking at the code and noticed how similar these two 'apps' actually are. So I extracted the most common functionality into a base class and inherited from it, prinicple of DRY I suppose. I'm sure more could be done to extract even more commonality, but this was really low-hanging. Anyway included patch for consideration.
Created attachment 16974 [details] refactors to extract common features
Patch (finally) applied. Thanks for it! Something small but still worthwhile. http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=372317&view=rev
batch transition pre-FOP1.0 resolved+fixed bugs to closed+fixed