diff --git a/tools/eclipse/plugins/com.android.ide.eclipse.adt/plugin.xml b/tools/eclipse/plugins/com.android.ide.eclipse.adt/plugin.xml
index 35ceba76e..6022a2027 100644
--- a/tools/eclipse/plugins/com.android.ide.eclipse.adt/plugin.xml
+++ b/tools/eclipse/plugins/com.android.ide.eclipse.adt/plugin.xml
@@ -245,6 +245,7 @@
                label="Fix Project Properties"
                menubarPath="com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.AndroidTools/group3"/>
       </objectContribution>
+
    </extension>
    <extension
          point="org.eclipse.ui.preferencePages">
@@ -497,15 +498,45 @@
             id="adt.actionSet.refactorings"
             label="Android Refactorings"
             visible="true">
+ 
+         <!-- This duplicates the Refactoring Menu definition from the jdt.ui plugin.xml,
+              which allows us to insert our contribution even if the JDT is not loaded. 
+              We overload the definition with our new group.-->
+         <menu
+               label="Refactor"
+               path="edit"
+               id="org.eclipse.jdt.ui.refactoring.menu">
+            <separator name="undoRedoGroup"/>
+            <separator name="reorgGroup"/>
+            <separator name="androidGroup"/>
+            <separator name="codingGroup"/>
+            <separator name="reorgGroup2"/>
+            <separator name="typeGroup"/>
+            <separator name="typeGroup2"/>
+            <separator name="codingGroup2"/>
+            <separator name="typeGroup3"/>
+            <separator name="scriptGroup"/>
+         </menu>
+
+         <menu 
+               label="Android" 
+               path="org.eclipse.jdt.ui.refactoring.menu/androidGroup" 
+               id="com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.refactoring.menu"> 
+              <separator name="android"/> 
+         </menu> 
          <action
                class="com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.refactorings.extractstring.ExtractStringAction"
                definitionId="com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.refactoring.extract.string"
                id="com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.actions.ExtractString"
                label="Extract Android String..."
-               menubarPath="org.eclipse.jdt.ui.refactoring.menu/codingGroup"
+               menubarPath="org.eclipse.jdt.ui.refactoring.menu/com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.refactoring.menu/android"
                style="push"
                tooltip="Extracts a string into Android resource string">
          </action>
+         <menu
+               id="org.eclipse.jdt.ui.refactoring.menu"
+               label="Refactor">
+         </menu>
       </actionSet>
    </extension>
    <extension