Salut André, to avoid to depend to an external lib just to get benefit of 3 methods :)
Best, -Simo http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ http://twitter.com/simonetripodi On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 5:27 PM, André Diermann <andre.dierm...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello, > > I noticed that the majority (all?) functionality of the Assertions class is > already covert by commons-lang Validate [1]. > > For instance Assertions.checkNotNull() is an equivalent to > Validate.notNull(). > > Is there a reason for this? > > Regards, > André > > [1] > > http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/javadocs/api-release/index.html >
