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Bug 472869

Summary:	Consolidate handled and direct tool and menu item implementations
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Dirk Fauth <dirk.fauth>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	jhelming, Lars.Vogel
Version:	4.5
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description Dirk Fauth

2015-07-16 15:58:05 EDT

Looking at HandledContributionItem and DirectContributionItem, it can be seen that there are quite a few similarities in the implementation. 

I think it would be good to create an abstract base class for these classes and also improve the implementation regarding event listeners for example.

Comment 1 Lars Vogel

2015-07-16 23:15:45 EDT

Jonas had a similar Bug report. Jonas, can you mark this one as duplicate?

Comment 2 Lars Vogel

2015-07-17 00:04:59 EDT

Ah, found it mayself.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 468605 ***