diff --git a/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/recrawl/AbstractPersistProcessor.java b/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/recrawl/AbstractPersistProcessor.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5be7404e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/recrawl/AbstractPersistProcessor.java
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+/*
+ *  This file is part of the Heritrix web crawler (crawler.archive.org).
+ *
+ *  Licensed to the Internet Archive (IA) by one or more individual 
+ *  contributors. 
+ *
+ *  The IA licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ *  (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ *  the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ *  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ *  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ *  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ *  limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.archive.modules.recrawl;
+
+import static org.archive.modules.recrawl.RecrawlAttributeConstants.A_FETCH_HISTORY;
+import static org.archive.modules.recrawl.RecrawlAttributeConstants.A_WRITE_TAG;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import org.archive.modules.CrawlURI;
+import org.archive.modules.Processor;
+
+public abstract class AbstractPersistProcessor extends Processor {
+
+    /** @see RecrawlAttributeConstants#A_WRITE_TAG */
+    protected boolean onlyStoreIfWriteTagPresent = true;
+    public boolean getOnlyStoreIfWriteTagPresent() {
+        return onlyStoreIfWriteTagPresent;
+    }
+    public void setOnlyStoreIfWriteTagPresent(boolean onlyStoreIfWriteTagPresent) {
+        this.onlyStoreIfWriteTagPresent = onlyStoreIfWriteTagPresent;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Whether the current CrawlURI's state should be persisted (to log or
+     * direct to database)
+     * 
+     * @param curi
+     *            CrawlURI
+     * @return true if state should be stored; false to skip persistence
+     */
+    protected boolean shouldStore(CrawlURI curi) {
+        if (getOnlyStoreIfWriteTagPresent()) {
+            @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+            Map<String,Object>[] history = (Map<String,Object>[])curi.getData().get(A_FETCH_HISTORY);
+            return history != null && history[0] != null && history[0].containsKey(A_WRITE_TAG);
+        } else {
+            return curi.isSuccess(); 
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Whether the current CrawlURI's state should be loaded
+     * 
+     * @param curi CrawlURI
+     * @return true if state should be loaded; false to skip loading
+     */
+    protected boolean shouldLoad(CrawlURI curi) {
+        // TODO: don't load some (prereqs?)
+        return true;
+    }
+
+
+}
diff --git a/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/recrawl/PersistProcessor.java b/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/recrawl/PersistProcessor.java
index e05fe16f..9085afdd 100644
--- a/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/recrawl/PersistProcessor.java
+++ b/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/recrawl/PersistProcessor.java
@@ -19,8 +19,6 @@
 
 package org.archive.modules.recrawl;
 
-import static org.archive.modules.recrawl.RecrawlAttributeConstants.A_FETCH_HISTORY;
-import static org.archive.modules.recrawl.RecrawlAttributeConstants.A_WRITE_TAG;
 
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.File;
@@ -40,7 +38,6 @@ import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
 import org.apache.commons.lang.SerializationUtils;
 import org.archive.bdb.BdbModule;
 import org.archive.modules.CrawlURI;
-import org.archive.modules.Processor;
 import org.archive.util.ArchiveUtils;
 import org.archive.util.FileUtils;
 import org.archive.util.OneLineSimpleLogger;
@@ -65,7 +62,7 @@ import com.sleepycat.je.EnvironmentConfig;
  * 
  * @author gojomo
  */
-public abstract class PersistProcessor extends Processor {
+public abstract class PersistProcessor extends AbstractPersistProcessor {
 
     private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
 
@@ -84,15 +81,6 @@ public abstract class PersistProcessor extends Processor {
         HISTORY_DB_CONFIG = dbConfig;
     }
 
-    /** @see RecrawlAttributeConstants#A_WRITE_TAG */
-    boolean onlyStoreIfWriteTagPresent = true;
-    public boolean getOnlyStoreIfWriteTagPresent() {
-        return onlyStoreIfWriteTagPresent;
-    }
-    public void setOnlyStoreIfWriteTagPresent(boolean onlyStoreIfWriteTagPresent) {
-        this.onlyStoreIfWriteTagPresent = onlyStoreIfWriteTagPresent;
-    }
-
     public PersistProcessor() {
     }
     
@@ -113,35 +101,6 @@ public abstract class PersistProcessor extends Processor {
         return SURT.fromURI(uri,true);
     }
 
-    /**
-     * Whether the current CrawlURI's state should be persisted (to log or
-     * direct to database)
-     * 
-     * @param curi
-     *            CrawlURI
-     * @return true if state should be stored; false to skip persistence
-     */
-    protected boolean shouldStore(CrawlURI curi) {
-        if (getOnlyStoreIfWriteTagPresent()) {
-            @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
-            Map<String,Object>[] history = (Map<String,Object>[])curi.getData().get(A_FETCH_HISTORY);
-            return history != null && history[0] != null && history[0].containsKey(A_WRITE_TAG);
-        } else {
-            return curi.isSuccess(); 
-        }
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Whether the current CrawlURI's state should be loaded
-     * 
-     * @param curi CrawlURI
-     * @return true if state should be loaded; false to skip loading
-     */
-    protected boolean shouldLoad(CrawlURI curi) {
-        // TODO: don't load some (prereqs?)
-        return true;
-    }
-
     /**
      * Copies entries from an existing environment db to a new one. If
      * historyMap is not provided, only logs the entries that would have been 
diff --git a/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/recrawl/PersistStoreProcessor.java b/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/recrawl/PersistStoreProcessor.java
index 8065d6db..8977e344 100644
--- a/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/recrawl/PersistStoreProcessor.java
+++ b/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/recrawl/PersistStoreProcessor.java
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ public class PersistStoreProcessor extends PersistOnlineProcessor
     public PersistStoreProcessor() {
     }
     
-    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
     @Override
     protected void innerProcess(CrawlURI curi) throws InterruptedException {
         store.put(persistKeyFor(curi),curi.getPersistentDataMap());