diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/java/saxon/default8.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/java/saxon/default8.nix
index af5461d76f0..d9d2e68ce0a 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/java/saxon/default8.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/java/saxon/default8.nix
@@ -1,13 +1,22 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl, unzip}:
+{stdenv, fetchurl, unzip, jre}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "saxonb-8.0";
-  builder = ./unzip-builder.sh;
+  name = "saxonb-8.8";
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/tarballs/saxonb8-0.zip;
-    md5 = "d05fbd398847ef27b2d1d875bb5136ea";
+    url = http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/saxon/saxonb8-8j.zip;
+    md5 = "35c4c376174cfe340f179d2e44dd84f0";
   };
 
-  inherit unzip;
   buildInputs = [unzip];
+
+  buildCommand = "
+    unzip $src -d $out
+    ensureDir $out/bin
+    cat > $out/bin/saxon8 <<EOF
+#! $shell
+export JAVA_HOME=${jre}
+exec ${jre}/bin/java -jar $out/saxon8.jar \"\\$@\"
+EOF
+    chmod a+x $out/bin/saxon8
+  ";
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index b54064a7257..fdcf7549150 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -1776,7 +1776,7 @@ rec {
   };
 
   saxonb = import ../development/libraries/java/saxon/default8.nix {
-    inherit fetchurl stdenv unzip;
+    inherit fetchurl stdenv unzip jre;
   };
 
   sharedobjects = import ../development/libraries/java/shared-objects {