diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/java/fastjar/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/java/fastjar/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..bd69e8aeb5b7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/java/fastjar/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+{ fetchurl, stdenv, zlib }:
+
+let version = "0.94"; in
+  stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+    name = "fastjar-${version}";
+
+    src = fetchurl {
+      url = "mirror://sourceforge/fastjar/${version}/${name}.tar.gz";
+      sha256 = "15bvhvn2fzpziynk4myg1wl70wxa5a6v65hkzlcgnzh1wg1py8as";
+    };
+
+    buildInputs = [ zlib ];
+
+    doCheck = true;
+
+    meta = {
+      description = "FastJar, a fast Java archiver written in C";
+
+      longDescription = ''
+        Fastjar is a version of Sun's `jar' utility, written entirely in C, and
+        therefore quite a bit faster.  Fastjar can be up to 100x faster than
+        the stock `jar' program running without a JIT.
+      '';
+
+      homepage = http://fastjar.sourceforge.net/;
+
+      license = "GPLv2+";
+
+      maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.ludo ];
+    };
+  }
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 68cd49a457b6..a82dd5e794c5 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -4139,6 +4139,10 @@ let
     inherit stdenv fetchurl;
   };
 
+  fastjar = import ../development/tools/java/fastjar {
+    inherit fetchurl stdenv zlib;
+  };
+
   httpunit = import ../development/libraries/java/httpunit {
     inherit stdenv fetchurl unzip;
   };