[beanutils2] Assertions class vs. lang Validate

[André Diermann]

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