Is there Commons AnnotationUtils like library? (Java)

With version 2.5.6 of Spring, it was possible to use spring.jar (2.8 MB) as dependency. With version 3, that's not possible. Instead you have to add dependency to the core, beans, context, asm and expression module as a minimum to start the container.

Since you only the AnnotationUtils class, it's sufficient with the core module. You can find the Ivy and Maven element together with a download link here:

http://www.springsource.com/repository/app/search?query=AnnotationUtils

Its size is 350 KB versus Apache Commons Lang 2.4 on 258 KB.