diff --git a/databases/Makefile b/databases/Makefile
index 881ce61c43f7..f9dcde865388 100644
--- a/databases/Makefile
+++ b/databases/Makefile
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@
     SUBDIR += ip4r
     SUBDIR += ipa_sdb
     SUBDIR += isql-viewer
+    SUBDIR += jakarta-commons-dbutils
     SUBDIR += jasperreports
     SUBDIR += java-sqlrelay
     SUBDIR += jdb
diff --git a/databases/jakarta-commons-dbutils/Makefile b/databases/jakarta-commons-dbutils/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8157b8d83796
--- /dev/null
+++ b/databases/jakarta-commons-dbutils/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+# Ports collection makefile for:	Jakarta Commons DbUtils
+# Date created:			14 Feb 2006
+# Whom:				Michael Winking <mwfp@foldl.net>
+#
+# $FreeBSD$
+#
+
+PORTNAME=	commons-dbutils
+PORTVERSION=	1.0
+CATEGORIES=	databases java
+MASTER_SITES=	${MASTER_SITE_APACHE_JAKARTA}
+MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR=	commons/dbutils/source
+PKGNAMEPREFIX=	jakarta-
+DISTNAME=	${PORTNAME}-${PORTVERSION}-src
+
+MAINTAINER=	mwfp@foldl.net
+COMMENT=	JDBC helper library
+
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${JAVALIBDIR}/junit.jar:${PORTSDIR}/java/junit
+
+USE_JAVA=	yes
+JAVA_VERSION=	1.3+
+USE_ANT=	yes
+
+MAKE_ARGS=	-cp ${JAVAJARDIR}/junit.jar
+ALL_TARGET=	dist
+WRKSRC=		${WRKDIR}/${PORTNAME}-${PORTVERSION}
+PLIST_FILES=	%%JAVAJARDIR%%/${PORTNAME}.jar
+
+.if !defined(NOPORTDOCS)
+PORTDOCS=	LICENSE.txt api
+.endif
+
+do-install:
+	@${ECHO_MSG} -n ">> Installing JAR as ${JAVAJARDIR}/${PORTNAME}.jar..."
+# strangely the jar archive from a 1.0 build contains 1.1 as version number
+	@${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/dist/commons-dbutils-1.1-dev.jar \
+		${JAVAJARDIR}/${PORTNAME}.jar
+	@${ECHO_MSG} " [DONE]"
+.if !defined(NOPORTDOCS)
+	@${ECHO_MSG} -n ">> Installing documentation..."
+	@${MKDIR} ${DOCSDIR}
+	@cd ${WRKSRC}/dist/docs && ${FIND} api \
+	  | ${CPIO} -pdmu -R ${SHAREOWN}:${SHAREGRP} ${DOCSDIR} > /dev/null 2>&1
+	@${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/dist/LICENSE.txt \
+		${DOCSDIR}/
+	@${ECHO_MSG} " [DONE]"
+.endif
+
+.include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/databases/jakarta-commons-dbutils/distinfo b/databases/jakarta-commons-dbutils/distinfo
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3588f268bc3e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/databases/jakarta-commons-dbutils/distinfo
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+MD5 (commons-dbutils-1.0-src.tar.gz) = 811b2d6e5c8c519c6196464ab89252a9
+SHA256 (commons-dbutils-1.0-src.tar.gz) = 6bf5376457ca201d9086cd42d16a026ba0d2254912517bbbfeea64e806dd41a2
+SIZE (commons-dbutils-1.0-src.tar.gz) = 28707
diff --git a/databases/jakarta-commons-dbutils/files/patch-build.xml b/databases/jakarta-commons-dbutils/files/patch-build.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5ce7dffed012
--- /dev/null
+++ b/databases/jakarta-commons-dbutils/files/patch-build.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# use installed junit, instead of unnecessarily downloading and and building a custom one (which didn't work anyway)
+*** build.xml.old	Sun Jan  1 09:43:41 2006
+--- build.xml	Sun Jan  1 09:32:51 2006
+***************
+*** 139,152 ****
+      </javadoc>
+    </target>
+    <target name="get-deps" unless="noget" depends="init">
+-     <get dest="${libdir}/junit-3.8.1.jar" usetimestamp="true" ignoreerrors="true" src="http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/junit/jars/junit-3.8.1.jar">
+-     </get>
+-     <get dest="${libdir}/junit-3.8.1.jar" usetimestamp="true" ignoreerrors="true" src="http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/junit/jars/junit-3.8.1.jar">
+-     </get>
+-     <get dest="${libdir}/ant-1.5.jar" usetimestamp="true" ignoreerrors="true" src="http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/ant/jars/ant-1.5.jar">
+-     </get>
+-     <get dest="${libdir}/ant-optional-1.5.jar" usetimestamp="true" ignoreerrors="true" src="http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/ant/jars/ant-optional-1.5.jar">
+-     </get>
+    </target>
+    <target name="install-maven">
+      <get dest="${user.home}/maven-install-latest.jar" usetimestamp="true" src="${repo}/maven/maven-install-latest.jar">
+--- 139,144 ----
diff --git a/databases/jakarta-commons-dbutils/pkg-descr b/databases/jakarta-commons-dbutils/pkg-descr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..da293d64c72e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/databases/jakarta-commons-dbutils/pkg-descr
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+DbUtils is a small set of classes designed to make working with JDBC easier.
+JDBC resource cleanup code is mundane, error prone work so these classes
+abstract out all of the cleanup tasks from your code leaving you with what
+you really wanted to do with JDBC in the first place: query and update data.
+
+WWW: http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/dbutils/