The @var annotation has been moved to the experimental package.

Added a test of a @var variable with null initialization.

test/transform/resource/after-ecj/ValNullInit.java

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+import lombok.val;
+
+class ValNullInit {
+  ValNullInit() {
+    super();
+  }
+  void method() {
+    final @val java.lang.Object x = null;
+  }
+}