diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/java/xalanj/builder.sh b/pkgs/development/libraries/java/xalanj/builder.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4d172b0a4c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/java/xalanj/builder.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+source $stdenv/setup
+
+unpackPhase
+mkdir -p $out
+cp -r $directory/* $out
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/java/xalanj/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/java/xalanj/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..af13a5015fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/java/xalanj/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl}:
+
+/*
+This is a binary package containing the jars... yuck!
+*/
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "xalanj-2.7.0";
+  directory = "xalan-j_2_7_0";
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://apache.cs.uu.nl/dist/xml/xalan-j/xalan-j_2_7_0-bin-2jars.tar.gz";
+    md5 = "4d7b03dcaf2484b5f9685cc4309a9910";
+  };
+  builder = ./builder.sh;
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 1f0f0ff0670..80c7c2e992e 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -1416,6 +1416,10 @@ rec {
     inherit (xlibs) libXtst;
   };
 
+  xalanj = import ../development/libraries/java/xalanj {
+    inherit stdenv fetchurl;
+  };
+
   ### DEVELOPMENT / LIBRARIES / HASKELL
 
   uulib = import ../development/libraries/haskell/uulib {