diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/axis/builder.sh b/pkgs/development/libraries/axis/builder.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index d979eb9d803b..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/axis/builder.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-source $stdenv/setup
-
-mkdir -p $out
-unpackPhase
-mv $directory/* $out
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/axis/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/axis/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 62ae463b5fc8..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/axis/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "axis-1.3";
-  directory = "axis-1_3";
-  builder = ./builder.sh;
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "http://archive.apache.org/dist/ws/axis/1_3/axis-bin-1_3.tar.gz";
-    md5 = "dd8203f08c37872f4fd2bfb45c4bfe04";
-  };
-  inherit stdenv;
-
-  meta = {
-    description = "Implementation of the SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) submission to W3C";
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 2305a3fe98f8..94928d92081c 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -4364,8 +4364,6 @@ let
 
   audiofile = callPackage ../development/libraries/audiofile { };
 
-  axis = callPackage ../development/libraries/axis { };
-
   babl_0_0_22 = callPackage ../development/libraries/babl/0_0_22.nix { };
 
   babl = callPackage ../development/libraries/babl { };