diff --git a/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/imports/AvoidStaticImportCheck.java b/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/imports/AvoidStaticImportCheck.java
index 6f8f3466d..e3b2cccb1 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/imports/AvoidStaticImportCheck.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/imports/AvoidStaticImportCheck.java
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@
 
 package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.imports;
 
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.ArrayUtils;
+
 import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.Check;
 import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.DetailAST;
 import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.FullIdent;
@@ -72,7 +74,7 @@ public class AvoidStaticImportCheck
     public static final String MSG_KEY = "import.avoidStatic";
 
     /** the classes/static members to exempt from this check. */
-    private String[] excludes = new String[0];
+    private String[] excludes = ArrayUtils.EMPTY_STRING_ARRAY;
 
     @Override
     public int[] getDefaultTokens() {
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/javadoc/JavadocUtils.java b/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/javadoc/JavadocUtils.java
index 625f9ec5b..c2363954b 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/javadoc/JavadocUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/javadoc/JavadocUtils.java
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ import java.util.List;
 import java.util.regex.Matcher;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.ArrayUtils;
+
 import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
 import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
 import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.Utils;
@@ -51,7 +53,7 @@ public final class JavadocUtils {
 
         final Field[] fields = JavadocTokenTypes.class.getDeclaredFields();
 
-        String[] tempTokenValueToName = new String[0];
+        String[] tempTokenValueToName = ArrayUtils.EMPTY_STRING_ARRAY;
 
         for (final Field field : fields) {