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Issue 37943 points out that the "customize" term is used very inconsistently in the IDE, and it would benefit our users if we could replace these uses with more consistent IDE idioms. Java classes have a "Customize Bean" item on their nodes. As far as I can tell, this displays a dialog where the user can set up initial values for the beans' properties and then create a serialized version of the instance of the class. This is really useful functionality, but I don't think this is the right menu item label for this. A better term might be something like "New Serialized Instance..." which then displays the existing dialog. For terminology details: the term Customize in the JavaBeans spec refers to changing the properties of an existing instance. As such, the menu item "Customize Bean" is probably appropriate on the contextual menu for a serialized bean, but not on the class of the instance. (despite issue 37943 I don't think the "Customize Bean" menu item should be changed on .ser files since this is a standard JavaBeans(tm) term.)
the customize bean action is removed