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= How do I add an action to a the popup menu of the Java editor?
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The simplest way is to run New Action Wizard (File > New... > Module Development > Action) which creates an action for you and registers it in your `layer.xml`.

1. On the first tab, choose *Conditionally Enabled* action and select `EditorCookie` as the cookie class. 
2. On the second tab, check *Editor Context Menu Item* and choose MIME type (`text/x-java` in this case) and position.

OR
use

[source,java]
----

@ActionReference(path="Editors/text/x-java/Popup")
----

 for an action with the `EditorCookie` as context object


== See also:

* xref:./DevFaqActionAddToContextMenuOfAllEditors.adoc[How do I add an action to the context menu of all editors?]
* xref:./DevFaqActionAddFileMime.adoc[How do I add an action to a file of a given mime-type? ]
* xref:./DevFaqActionAddFolder.adoc[How do I add an action to a folder? ]
* xref:./DevFaqActionAddEditorPopup.adoc[How do I add an action to the text-editor popup menu? ]
* xref:./DevFaqActionAddMenuBar.adoc[How do I add an action to the NetBeans menu bar? ]
* xref:./DevFaqActionAddToolBar.adoc[How do I add an action to the NetBeans tool bar? ]
* xref:./DevFaqActionAddDataObject.adoc[How do I add an action to my custom node? ]