diff --git a/java/debugger/impl/src/com/intellij/debugger/engine/DebugProcessImpl.java b/java/debugger/impl/src/com/intellij/debugger/engine/DebugProcessImpl.java
index 775704b457f8..db0ec415b8c1 100644
--- a/java/debugger/impl/src/com/intellij/debugger/engine/DebugProcessImpl.java
+++ b/java/debugger/impl/src/com/intellij/debugger/engine/DebugProcessImpl.java
@@ -1555,14 +1555,8 @@ public abstract class DebugProcessImpl extends UserDataHolderBase implements Deb
       evaluationContext.getClassLoader());
 
     // reserve one extra element for the return value
-    ArrayReference arrayArgs = DebuggerUtilsEx.mirrorOfArray(objectArrayClass, boxedArgs.size() + 1, evaluationContext);
-    try {
-      DebuggerUtilsEx.setArrayValues(arrayArgs, boxedArgs, false);
-    }
-    catch (Exception e) {
-      throw new EvaluateException(e.getMessage(), e);
-    }
-    invokerArgs.add(arrayArgs);
+    boxedArgs.add(null);
+    invokerArgs.add(DebuggerUtilsEx.mirrorOfArray(objectArrayClass, boxedArgs, evaluationContext)); // args
     invokerArgs.add(method.declaringType().classLoader()); // method's declaring type class loader to be able to resolve parameter types
     return DebuggerUtilsImpl.invokeHelperMethod(evaluationContext, MethodInvoker.class, "invoke", invokerArgs, false);
   }
diff --git a/java/debugger/impl/src/com/intellij/debugger/ui/tree/render/BatchEvaluator.java b/java/debugger/impl/src/com/intellij/debugger/ui/tree/render/BatchEvaluator.java
index 99f3417184de..04780b6eb8a5 100644
--- a/java/debugger/impl/src/com/intellij/debugger/ui/tree/render/BatchEvaluator.java
+++ b/java/debugger/impl/src/com/intellij/debugger/ui/tree/render/BatchEvaluator.java
@@ -130,8 +130,8 @@ public final class BatchEvaluator {
       }
 
       // reserve one extra element for the return value to avoid gc collection of the result
-      ArrayReference argArray = DebuggerUtilsEx.mirrorOfArray(objectArrayClass, values.size() + 1, evaluationContext);
-      DebuggerUtilsEx.setArrayValues(argArray, values, false);
+      ArrayReference argArray =
+        DebuggerUtilsEx.mirrorOfArray(objectArrayClass, ContainerUtil.append(values, (Value)null), evaluationContext);
 
       Value result = ((DebugProcessImpl)debugProcess).invokeMethod(
         evaluationContext, myBatchEvaluatorClass, myBatchEvaluatorMethod, Collections.singletonList(argArray),
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ public final class BatchEvaluator {
         return true;
       }
     }
-    catch (EvaluateException | ClassNotLoadedException | InvalidTypeException e) {
+    catch (EvaluateException e) {
       LOG.error(e);
     }
     return false;