diff --git a/srcpkgs/apache-fop/INSTALL b/srcpkgs/apache-fop/INSTALL
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4704d521c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/apache-fop/INSTALL
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+#
+# This script will advise the user of the needed steps to 
+# configure apache-fop
+#
+case "${ACTION}" in
+post)
+    	
+    cat << _EOF
+=====================================================================
+
+- FOP environment configuration file is:
+
+  /etc/fop.conf
+
+  it is preconfigured as follow:
+
+  FOP_OPTS="-Xmx512m"
+  FOP_HOME="/usr/share/fop-1.1"
+  
+  note in FOPS_OPTS="-Xmx<your memory size>m" is preconfigured as 512 Mb
+  if you want use a different amount of memory modify it according your
+  needs.
+
+  According to my limited knowledge of FOP the configuration file for
+  the part that produce the documentations reside in a different file in
+  XML format, see an example in:
+
+  /usr/share/fop-<version>/conf/
+
+  For hint about this configurations see the proper page at:
+
+  http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/1.1/configuration.html
+
+  For hints on usign fop see:
+
+  http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/FrontPage
+
+  In this package I've included the full documentation in HTML format
+  in:
+
+  /usr/share/fop-<version>/javadocs/
+
+  Happy FOPping!
+
+=====================================================================
+
+  You may need to reboot to ensure that PATH is update correctly,
+  for the impatients, if you want you can type
+
+  $ source /etc/profile
+
+  and check the PATH.
+
+=====================================================================
+
+  Some part of the code of FOP are not licensed under Apache-2.0,
+  see in /usr/share/fop-<version>/lib/ for the licenses of this parts
+  of code that for convenience are in the distribution of FOP.
+
+=====================================================================
+_EOF
+    ;;
+esac
+
diff --git a/srcpkgs/apache-fop/files/fop.conf b/srcpkgs/apache-fop/files/fop.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8c5ef85b50
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/apache-fop/files/fop.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+FOP_OPTS="-Xmx512m"
+FOP_HOME="/usr/share/fop-1.1"
diff --git a/srcpkgs/apache-fop/template b/srcpkgs/apache-fop/template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..15f153dcd2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/apache-fop/template
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+# Template file for 'apache-fop'
+pkgname="apache-fop"
+version="1.1"
+revision=1
+short_desc="Java print formatter driven by XSL formatting objects (XSL-FO) and an output independent formatter"
+maintainer="Carlo Dormeletti <carlo.dormeletti@email.it>"
+license="Apache-2.0"
+homepage="http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/"
+distfiles="http://mirror.dkd.de/apache/xmlgraphics/fop/source/fop-${version}-src.tar.gz"
+checksum="58164cb3298d130522ecd445b8082c71c36242ea6464c8f02ab4157e4a332522"
+only_for_archs="i686 x86_64"
+hostmakedepends="jdk"
+makedepends="apache-ant"
+depends="jre "
+wrksrc="fop-${version}"
+_prefix="usr/share/fop-${version}"  
+conf_files="/etc/fop.conf"
+
+if [ "$XBPS_TARGET_MACHINE" = "x86_64" ]; then
+    makedepends+=" JAI"
+    depends+=" JAI"
+elif [ "$XBPS_TARGET_MACHINE" = "i686" ]; then
+    makedepends+=" JAI"
+    depends+=" JAI"
+fi
+
+do_build(){
+    JAVA_HOME=/usr/share/java ant package
+    JAVA_HOME=/usr/share/java ant javadocs
+}
+
+do_install() {
+    vmkdir ${_prefix}
+    vmkdir ${_prefix}/build
+    vcopy "build/fop*.jar" ${_prefix}/build
+    vmkdir ${_prefix}/lib
+    vcopy "lib/*" ${_prefix}/lib
+    vmkdir ${_prefix}/conf
+    vcopy "conf/*" ${_prefix}/conf
+    vmkdir ${_prefix}/examples
+    vcopy "examples/*" ${_prefix}/examples
+    vmkdir ${_prefix}/hyph
+    vcopy "hyph/*" ${_prefix}/hyph
+    vmkdir ${_prefix}/javadocs
+    vcopy "build/javadocs/*" ${_prefix}/javadocs
+    vcopy fop ${_prefix}
+    vcopy fop.js ${_prefix}
+    vcopy KEYS ${_prefix}
+    vcopy LICENSE ${_prefix}
+    vcopy NOTICE ${_prefix}
+    vcopy README ${_prefix}
+    vcopy status.xml ${_prefix}
+    vinstall ${FILESDIR}/fop.conf 644 etc/
+    #create a handy symlink
+    vmkdir usr/bin
+    ln -sf /usr/share/fop-${version}/fop $DESTDIR/usr/bin/fop
+}
+