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The field declaration is - when refactoring an undeclared variable to a field - created at the begining of the class when it's a POJO definition, but at the end of the class when it's a visual (JPanel) class. I suggest it be configurable if possible or just plain consistent (simpler to implement, I expect) - this would make the refactoring capability noticably more effective.
It rather an enhancement. Reassigning to java/hints