diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/netbeans/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/netbeans/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..dccc92a91f51
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/netbeans/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl, oraclejdk, unzip, which, makeWrapper, makeDesktopItem}:
+
+let
+  desktopItem = makeDesktopItem {
+    name = "netbeans";
+    exec = "netbeans";
+    comment = "Integrated Development Environment";
+    desktopName = "Netbeans IDE";
+    genericName = "Integrated Development Environment";
+    categories = "Application;Development;";
+  };
+in
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "netbeans-7.2";
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = http://download.netbeans.org/netbeans/7.2/final/zip/netbeans-7.2-201207171143-ml.zip;
+    sha256 = "18ya1w291hdnc35vb12yqnai82wmqm7351wn82fax12kzha5fmci";
+  };
+  buildCommand = ''
+    # Unpack and copy the stuff
+    unzip $src
+    mkdir -p $out
+    cp -a netbeans $out
+    
+    # Create a wrapper capable of starting it
+    mkdir -p $out/bin
+    makeWrapper $out/netbeans/bin/netbeans $out/bin/netbeans \
+      --prefix PATH : ${oraclejdk}/bin:${which}/bin
+      
+    # Create desktop item, so we can pick it from the KDE/GNOME menu
+    mkdir -p $out/share/applications
+    cp ${desktopItem}/share/applications/* $out/share/applications
+  '';
+  
+  buildInputs = [ unzip makeWrapper ];
+  
+  meta = {
+    description = "An integrated development environment for Java, C, C++ and PHP";
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.sander ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index bcb7a356a254..ddca30bfa9b8 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -7450,6 +7450,8 @@ let
 
   navit = callPackage ../applications/misc/navit { };
 
+  netbeans = callPackage ../applications/editors/netbeans { };
+
   ncdu = callPackage ../tools/misc/ncdu { };
 
   nedit = callPackage ../applications/editors/nedit {