diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-util/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/util/ReflectionUtils.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-util/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/util/ReflectionUtils.java
index a5c83f0..7cc5cf8 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-util/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/util/ReflectionUtils.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-util/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/util/ReflectionUtils.java
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.lang.reflect.Field;
+import java.lang.reflect.Method;
 
 import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
 import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
@@ -103,4 +104,10 @@
             throw new IOException(e);
         }
     }
+
+    public static Method getAccessibleMethod(Class<?> clazz, String methodName) throws NoSuchMethodException {
+        Method m = clazz.getDeclaredMethod(methodName);
+        m.setAccessible(true);
+        return m;
+    }
 }