diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/java/jakarta-bcel/builder.sh b/pkgs/development/libraries/java/jakarta-bcel/builder.sh
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+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/java/jakarta-bcel/builder.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+. $stdenv/setup
+
+tar zxvf $src
+cd bcel-5.1
+mkdir -p $out/share/java/
+cp bcel-5.1.jar $out/share/java/
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/java/jakarta-bcel/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/java/jakarta-bcel/default.nix
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+{stdenv, fetchurl, regexp}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "jakarta-bcel-5.1";
+  builder = ./builder.sh;
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = http://apache.cs.uu.nl/dist/jakarta/bcel/binaries/bcel-5.1.tar.gz;
+    md5 = "318f22e4f5f59b68cd004db83a7d65dc";
+  };
+
+  inherit regexp;
+  buildInputs = [stdenv];
+}