Utility for determining if JVM is running assertions enabled.

AssertionUtils.java

public class AssertionUtils {
	public static boolean assertionsEnabled = false;
	static {
		// When this class is loaded the static block will execute and it the application is running with -ea the value of assertionsEnabled will be set to true.
		//noinspection AssertWithSideEffects
		assert (assertionsEnabled = true);
	}
}