diff --git a/extensions/avro/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/avro/deployment/AvroSchemaCodeGenProvider.java b/extensions/avro/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/avro/deployment/AvroSchemaCodeGenProvider.java
index c21a05dfb0ed2..e7ac52c12b7e0 100644
--- a/extensions/avro/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/avro/deployment/AvroSchemaCodeGenProvider.java
+++ b/extensions/avro/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/avro/deployment/AvroSchemaCodeGenProvider.java
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 import org.apache.avro.Conversions;
 import org.apache.avro.Schema;
 import org.apache.avro.compiler.specific.SpecificCompiler;
-import org.apache.commons.lang3.ArrayUtils;
 
 import io.quarkus.bootstrap.prebuild.CodeGenException;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.CodeGenProvider;
@@ -48,7 +47,7 @@ void compileSingleFile(Path filePath,
         // allow them to share a single schema so reuse and sharing of schema
         // is possible.
         try {
-            if (ArrayUtils.isEmpty(options.imports)) {
+            if (options.imports == null || options.imports.length == 0) {
                 schema = new Schema.Parser().parse(file);
             } else {
                 schema = schemaParser.parse(file);