diff --git a/commons/src/main/java/org/archive/state/ModuleTestBase.java b/commons/src/main/java/org/archive/state/ModuleTestBase.java
index 7c50df66..90e167c4 100644
--- a/commons/src/main/java/org/archive/state/ModuleTestBase.java
+++ b/commons/src/main/java/org/archive/state/ModuleTestBase.java
@@ -163,8 +163,11 @@ public abstract class ModuleTestBase extends TestCase {
      * 
      * @throws Exception   if the module cannot be serialized
      */
-    public void testSerialization() throws Exception {
+    public void testSerializationIfAppropriate() throws Exception {
         Object first = makeModule();
+        if(!(first instanceof Serializable)) {
+            return; 
+        }
         byte[] firstBytes = SerializationUtils.serialize((Serializable)first); 
          
         Object second = SerializationUtils.deserialize(firstBytes);
@@ -178,7 +181,6 @@ public abstract class ModuleTestBase extends TestCase {
 //        verifySerialization(first, firstBytes, second, secondBytes);
         verifySerialization(first, firstBytes, third, thirdBytes);
     }
-    
 
     /**
      * Verifies that serialization was successful.
diff --git a/engine/src/test/java/org/archive/crawler/frontier/BdbFrontierTest.java b/engine/src/test/java/org/archive/crawler/frontier/BdbFrontierTest.java
index 5d8ada4a..8025f590 100644
--- a/engine/src/test/java/org/archive/crawler/frontier/BdbFrontierTest.java
+++ b/engine/src/test/java/org/archive/crawler/frontier/BdbFrontierTest.java
@@ -28,17 +28,6 @@ import org.archive.crawler.framework.CrawlerProcessorTestBase;
  */
 public class BdbFrontierTest extends CrawlerProcessorTestBase {
 
-    @Override
-    public void testSerialization() {
-        // FIXME
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    protected void verifySerialization(Object first, byte[] firstBytes, 
-            Object second, byte[] secondBytes) throws Exception {
-    }
-
-
     // TODO TESTME
 
 }
diff --git a/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/Processor.java b/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/Processor.java
index 38bd0149..9f4b632f 100644
--- a/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/Processor.java
+++ b/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/Processor.java
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ package org.archive.modules;
 
 
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.Serializable;
 import java.util.Set;
 import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong;
 
@@ -49,8 +48,7 @@ import org.springframework.context.Lifecycle;
  * @author pjack
  */
 public abstract class Processor 
-implements Serializable, 
-           HasKeyedProperties, 
+implements HasKeyedProperties, 
            Lifecycle, 
            BeanNameAware,
            Checkpointable {