diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/java/commons/bcel/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/java/commons/bcel/default.nix
index ac9b6a53bf32..0bcd164a525d 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/java/commons/bcel/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/java/commons/bcel/default.nix
@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   version = "5.2";
-  name    = "bcel-${version}";
+  name    = "commons-bcel-${version}";
 
   src = fetchurl {
-    url    = "mirror://apache/commons/bcel/binaries/${name}.tar.gz";
+    url    = "mirror://apache/commons/bcel/binaries/bcel-${version}.tar.gz";
     sha256 = "13ppnd6afljdjq21jpn4ik2h1yxq8k2kg21ghi0lyb1yap1rd7k6";
   };
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/java/commons/compress/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/java/commons/compress/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2c20d9a9b362
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/java/commons/compress/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  version = "1.8.1";
+  name    = "commons-compress-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url    = "mirror://apache/commons/compress/binaries/${name}-bin.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "11viabgf34r3zx1avj51n00hzmx89kym3i90l6a5v5dbfh61h0lp";
+  };
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    tar xf ${src}
+    mkdir -p $out/share/java
+    cp *.jar $out/share/java/
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage    = "http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-compress";
+    description = "Allows manipulation of ar, cpio, Unix dump, tar, zip, gzip, XZ, Pack200, bzip2, 7z, arj, lzma, snappy, DEFLATE and Z files.";
+    maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [ copumpkin ];
+    license     = stdenv.lib.licenses.asl20;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/java/commons/fileupload/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/java/commons/fileupload/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ebb8a7d7f9db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/java/commons/fileupload/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  version = "1.3.1";
+  name    = "commons-fileupload-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url    = "mirror://apache/commons/fileupload/binaries/${name}-bin.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1jy7w2j2ay56mpq4ij3331cf9zgpkm832ydr63svb35j0ymnky72";
+  };
+  installPhase = ''
+    tar xf ${src}
+    mkdir -p $out/share/java
+    cp lib/*.jar $out/share/java/
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage    = "http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-fileupload";
+    description = "Makes it easy to add robust, high-performance, file upload capability to your servlets and web applications.";
+    maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [ copumpkin ];
+    license     = stdenv.lib.licenses.asl20;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/java/commons/io/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/java/commons/io/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5c80bcadf4b9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/java/commons/io/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  version = "2.4";
+  name    = "commons-io-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url    = "mirror://apache/commons/io/binaries/${name}-bin.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0m5xmjfr9k2zmbrz425q530jd0lm6368c4wm3jsjlsrqmqjpsvz1";
+  };
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    tar xf ${src}
+    mkdir -p $out/share/java
+    cp *.jar $out/share/java/
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage    = "http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-io";
+    description = "A library of utilities to assist with developing IO functionality";
+    maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [ copumpkin ];
+    license     = stdenv.lib.licenses.asl20;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/java/commons/lang/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/java/commons/lang/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..82806871a62e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/java/commons/lang/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  version = "3.3.2";
+  name    = "commons-lang-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url    = "mirror://apache/commons/lang/binaries/commons-lang3-${version}-bin.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1fmcx52h4cd2b7bplm7wy3725vh8bix64j3ykkxcn357y4j8ddzr";
+  };
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    tar xf ${src}
+    mkdir -p $out/share/java
+    cp *.jar $out/share/java/
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage    = "http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang";
+    description = "Provides additional methods to manipulate standard Java library classes";
+    maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [ copumpkin ];
+    license     = stdenv.lib.licenses.asl20;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/java/commons/math/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/java/commons/math/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ed04e2f410b4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/java/commons/math/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  version = "3.3";
+  name    = "commons-math-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url    = "mirror://apache/commons/math/binaries/commons-math3-${version}-bin.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1xs71c4vbai6zr84982g4ggv6c18dhkilkzw9n1irjqnjbgm5kzc";
+  };
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    tar xf ${src}
+    mkdir -p $out/share/java
+    cp *.jar $out/share/java/
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage    = "http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-math/";
+    description = "A library of lightweight, self-contained mathematics and statistics components";
+    maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [ copumpkin ];
+    license     = stdenv.lib.licenses.asl20;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/java/jakarta-commons/file-upload/builder.sh b/pkgs/development/libraries/java/jakarta-commons/file-upload/builder.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index d95feb5eeb44..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/java/jakarta-commons/file-upload/builder.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-set -e
-source $stdenv/setup
-
-tar zxvf $src
-mkdir -p $out
-mv $name/* $out
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/java/jakarta-commons/file-upload/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/java/jakarta-commons/file-upload/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index a609532f2825..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/java/jakarta-commons/file-upload/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl} :
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "commons-fileupload-1.0";
-  builder = ./builder.sh;
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://archive.apache.org/dist/jakarta/commons/fileupload/binaries/commons-fileupload-1.0.tar.gz;
-    md5 = "5618b26b1a5c006d7236fb4465e907b6";
-  };
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/java/jakarta-regexp/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/java/jakarta-regexp/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 55c3beff70a5..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/java/jakarta-regexp/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl}:
-
-# I want some provides mechanism for jar files. These
-# jars can then be added to the CLASSPATH by a dependent package.
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "jakarta-regexp-1.4";
-  builder = ./java-bin-builder.sh;
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://tarballs.nixos.org/jakarta-regexp-1.4.tar.gz;
-    md5 = "d903d84c949df848009f3bf205b32c97";
-  };
-
-  jars = ["jakarta-regexp-1.4.jar"];
-
-  buildInputs = [stdenv];
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/java/jakarta-regexp/java-bin-builder.sh b/pkgs/development/libraries/java/jakarta-regexp/java-bin-builder.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index c26173ab457a..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/java/jakarta-regexp/java-bin-builder.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-source $stdenv/setup
-
-tar zxvf $src
-cd jakarta-regexp-1.4
-mkdir -p $out/share/java/
-cp jakarta-regexp-1.4.jar $out/share/java/
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 6daa69a75417..9553dc27ac68 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -6738,10 +6738,18 @@ let
     stdenv = overrideInStdenv stdenv [gnumake380];
   };
 
-  commonsFileUpload = callPackage ../development/libraries/java/jakarta-commons/file-upload { };
-
   commonsBcel = callPackage ../development/libraries/java/commons/bcel { };
 
+  commonsCompress = callPackage ../development/libraries/java/commons/compress { };
+
+  commonsFileUpload = callPackage ../development/libraries/java/commons/fileupload { };
+
+  commonsLang = callPackage ../development/libraries/java/commons/lang { };
+
+  commonsIo = callPackage ../development/libraries/java/commons/io { };
+
+  commonsMath = callPackage ../development/libraries/java/commons/math { };
+
   fastjar = callPackage ../development/tools/java/fastjar { };
 
   httpunit = callPackage ../development/libraries/java/httpunit { };
@@ -6750,8 +6758,6 @@ let
 
   gwtwidgets = callPackage ../development/libraries/java/gwt-widgets { };
 
-  jakartaregexp = callPackage ../development/libraries/java/jakarta-regexp { };
-
   javaCup = callPackage ../development/libraries/java/cup { };
 
   javasvn = callPackage ../development/libraries/java/javasvn { };