Confusion about Action members

Hi!

Can Action objects work like this?

public class MyMenuItem extends JMenuItem {

  public static Action MyAction = SomeStaticClass.getAction();

}


where SomeStaticClass has a selection of general actions that can be
used by many other client classes, eg we could declare a public class
MyButton similarly and use the same action.

MyMenuItem is registered for the tag <menuitem> and MyButton for <button>

This way I wanted the Actions specified in the XML as

<menubar> <menu name='file'>
          <menuitem name='open' Action='MyAction'/>
          </menu>
</menubar>

to work similarly to one declared for a button.

I guess my question boils down to whether the reflection mech. is looking
only for public instance members, or also static ones.. UPDATE doesn't seem
to work even if I remove static..

thanks!
  Nandan