diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/java/commons/bsf/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/java/commons/bsf/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b2928683184
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/java/commons/bsf/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "commons-bsf-1.2";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = mirror://apache/commons/bsf/binaries/bsf-bin-2.4.0.tar.gz;
+    sha256 = "1my3hv4y8cvrd1kr315wvbjqsamzlzswnbqcmsa2m4hqcafddfr8";
+  };
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    mkdir -p $out/share/java
+    cp lib/bsf.jar $out/share/java/
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Interface to scripting languages, including JSR-223";
+    homepage = http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-bsf/;
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.asl20;
+  };
+}
+
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 3f0a4ea0f7a..adc83bd3b10 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -7178,6 +7178,8 @@ let
 
   commonsBcel = callPackage ../development/libraries/java/commons/bcel { };
 
+  commonsBsf = callPackage ../development/libraries/java/commons/bsf { };
+
   commonsCompress = callPackage ../development/libraries/java/commons/compress { };
 
   commonsFileUpload = callPackage ../development/libraries/java/commons/fileupload { };