diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/web-servers/tomcat.nix b/nixos/modules/services/web-servers/tomcat.nix
index c2f464014ae6..2af249a8e961 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/web-servers/tomcat.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/web-servers/tomcat.nix
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ with lib;
 let
 
   cfg = config.services.tomcat;
-  tomcat = pkgs.tomcat6;
+  tomcat = pkgs.tomcat7;
 in
 
 {
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/http/tomcat/6.0.nix b/pkgs/servers/http/tomcat/6.0.nix
index ee0049ce08f6..19f20cc8823c 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/http/tomcat/6.0.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/http/tomcat/6.0.nix
@@ -1,23 +1,6 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
-
-let version = "6.0.39"; in
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "apache-tomcat-${version}";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://apache/tomcat/tomcat-6/v${version}/bin/${name}.tar.gz";
+import ./recent.nix 
+  {
+    versionMajor = "6";
+    versionMinor = "0.39";
     sha256 = "19qix6affhc252n03smjf482drg3nxd27shni1gvhphgj3zfmgfy";
-  };
-
-  installPhase =
-    ''
-      mkdir $out
-      mv * $out
-    '';
-
-  meta = {
-    homepage = http://tomcat.apache.org/;
-    description = "An implementation of the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies";
-  };
-}
+  }
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/http/tomcat/7.0.nix b/pkgs/servers/http/tomcat/7.0.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..87bc57eb2b65
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/servers/http/tomcat/7.0.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+import ./recent.nix 
+  {
+    versionMajor = "7";
+    versionMinor = "0.55";
+    sha256 = "c20934fda63bc7311e2d8e067d67f886890c8be72280425c5f6f8fdd7a376c15";
+  }
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/http/tomcat/recent.nix b/pkgs/servers/http/tomcat/recent.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0d11ba7a1046
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/servers/http/tomcat/recent.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+{ versionMajor, versionMinor, sha256 }:
+{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
+
+let version = "${versionMajor}.${versionMinor}"; in
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "apache-tomcat-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://apache/tomcat/tomcat-${versionMajor}/v${version}/bin/${name}.tar.gz";
+    inherit sha256;
+  };
+
+  installPhase =
+    ''
+      mkdir $out
+      mv * $out
+    '';
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://tomcat.apache.org/;
+    description = "An implementation of the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index f2c8b83ada53..7aeaf7f7a3c5 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -7022,6 +7022,8 @@ let
 
   tomcat6 = callPackage ../servers/http/tomcat/6.0.nix { };
 
+  tomcat7 = callPackage ../servers/http/tomcat/7.0.nix { };
+
   tomcat_mysql_jdbc = callPackage ../servers/http/tomcat/jdbc/mysql { };
 
   axis2 = callPackage ../servers/http/tomcat/axis2 { };