Description Kevin McGuire 2008-06-18 23:10:40 EDT

ViewFactory.createView throws PartInitException.  The resulting message is:
   "Could not create view: <viewId>"

The failure is actually because the id is not in the view registry:

     IViewDescriptor desc = viewReg.find(id);
        // ensure that the view id is valid
        if (desc == null) {
			throw new PartInitException(NLS.bind(WorkbenchMessages.ViewFactory_couldNotCreate,  id ));
		}

It would be helpful if the message was more specific as PartInitException can be thrown for a number of reasons.