diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/java/commons/logging/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/java/commons/logging/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ee407470202
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/java/commons/logging/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "commons-logging-1.2";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url    = mirror://apache/commons/logging/binaries/commons-logging-1.2-bin.tar.gz;
+    sha256 = "1gc70pmcv0x6ibl89jglmr22f8zpr63iaifi49nrq399qw2qhx9z";
+  };
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    mkdir -p $out/share/java
+    cp commons-logging-*.jar $out/share/java/
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Wrapper around a variety of logging API implementations";
+    homepage = http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-logging;
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.asl20;
+  };
+}
+
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 0117122c089..3f0a4ea0f7a 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -7184,6 +7184,8 @@ let
 
   commonsLang = callPackage ../development/libraries/java/commons/lang { };
 
+  commonsLogging = callPackage ../development/libraries/java/commons/logging { };
+
   commonsIo = callPackage ../development/libraries/java/commons/io { };
 
   commonsMath = callPackage ../development/libraries/java/commons/math { };