Is there a common Java utility to break a list into batches?

Check out Lists.partition(java.util.List, int) from Google Guava:

Returns consecutive sublists of a list, each of the same size (the final list may be smaller). For example, partitioning a list containing [a, b, c, d, e] with a partition size of 3 yields [[a, b, c], [d, e]] — an outer list containing two inner lists of three and two elements, all in the original order.