View source for FAQ How do I add other plug-ins' actions to my menus?

Many plug-ins expose their actions as API, allowing you to instantiate
them and add them to your menus.  The trend in Eclipse 3.0 is to
introduce factory methods for creating actions, allowing the actual
action implementation to remain hidden. See <tt>ActionFactory</tt> 
and <tt>IDEActionFactory</tt> for examples of such action factories.


Views and editors can register their context menus with the platform
to allow other plug-ins to add actions to them dynamically.  
However, most actions in the platform are not contributed 
dynamically. It would create a lot of clutter if everyone added 
actions to everyone else&#146;s views.



== See Also: ==

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