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Whereas the explorer is fine for browsing with NetBeans, the insertion point for auto-generated code (GUI, beans properties and firing methods, etc) is not too important when using NetBeans. But when printing, or otherwise sharing the code with others (possibly not using NetBeans), it would be nice to have a GUI to reorder the methods and fields of a class, so that semantically related parts appear close to each other in the source. cut/paste is very error-prone, that is why I suggest this enhancement.
This is Java module RFE!
*** Issue 16996 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Pushing milestone (it does not seem appropriate to target 3.3 with a new feature :-)) Anyway, the milestone can be pushed further, we are trying to focus at the infrastructure to cover other feature requests (including this) so we may not make it in 3.4 timeframe.
Cleaning up before 4.0 planning
Target milestone was changed from not determined to TBD
Navigator can do that, right?
Yes, when "Sort by Order" sorting mode is selected in JavaNavigation (in context menu), then it's possible to perform DnD to reorder methods/fields in claas easily. There are still some UI issues with DnD (like better indication is needed), but functionality is there and wroking.