This is to record a request for adding support for scripting with BeanShell: http://www.beanshell.org/ BeanShell is simply an interpreter that uses Java as the scripting language. Since Batik is written in Java, this is a natural scripting language choice. Writing the Batik adapter would be fairly trivial, as the bsh.Interpreter does all the work for you; see: http://www.beanshell.org/javadoc/bsh/Interpreter.html
Reassigning all open bugs to the development list. Sorry for the mass mailing.