diff --git a/pkgs/applications/graphics/processing/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/graphics/processing/default.nix
index ecce0e260bb..69e5ccb85ec 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/graphics/processing/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/graphics/processing/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ fetchurl, stdenv, ant, jre, makeWrapper, libXxf86vm, which }:
+{ fetchurl, stdenv, ant, jdk, makeWrapper, libXxf86vm, which }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "processing-${version}";
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   # Stop it trying to download its own version of java
   patches = [ ./use-nixpkgs-jre.patch ];
 
-  buildInputs = [ ant jre makeWrapper libXxf86vm which ];
+  buildInputs = [ ant jdk makeWrapper libXxf86vm which ];
 
   buildPhase = "cd build && ant build";
 
@@ -21,12 +21,12 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     mkdir -p $out/bin
    cp -r linux/work/* $out/${name}/
    makeWrapper $out/${name}/processing $out/bin/processing \
-     --prefix PATH : "${jre}/bin:${which}/bin" \
+     --prefix PATH : "${jdk}/bin:${which}/bin" \
      --prefix LD_LIBRARY_PATH : ${libXxf86vm}/lib
    makeWrapper $out/${name}/processing-java $out/bin/processing-java \
-     --prefix PATH : "${jre}/bin:${which}/bin" \
+     --prefix PATH : "${jdk}/bin:${which}/bin" \
      --prefix LD_LIBRARY_PATH : ${libXxf86vm}/lib
-   ln -s ${jre} $out/${name}/java
+   ln -s ${jdk} $out/${name}/java
   '';
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 6d4bd57fa67..d66ebf21e1a 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -12365,7 +12365,10 @@ let
 
   qiv = callPackage ../applications/graphics/qiv { };
 
-  processing = callPackage ../applications/graphics/processing { inherit (xorg) libXxf86vm; };
+  processing = callPackage ../applications/graphics/processing {
+    inherit (xorg) libXxf86vm;
+    jdk = jdk7;
+  };
 
   # perhaps there are better apps for this task? It's how I had configured my preivous system.
   # And I don't want to rewrite all rules