diff --git a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/plugin.properties b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/plugin.properties
index c6138c73e16..96d5b679597 100644
--- a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/plugin.properties
+++ b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/plugin.properties
@@ -327,4 +327,4 @@ CDTIndexer.nullindexer=No Indexer (search-based features will not work correctly
 CDTIndexer.fastindexer=Fast C/C++ Indexer (faster but less accurate)
 
 IndexView.name=C/C++ Index
-UpdateIndex.name=Update Index
+RebuildIndex.name=Rebuild Index
diff --git a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/plugin.xml b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/plugin.xml
index 39d91b27a41..2d5358056e1 100644
--- a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/plugin.xml
+++ b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/plugin.xml
@@ -1344,5 +1344,18 @@
             id="PDOM"
             priority="3"/>
    	</extension>
+ <extension
+       point="org.eclipse.ui.popupMenus">
+    <objectContribution
+          adaptable="true"
+          id="org.eclipse.cdt.ui.rebuildIndexContribution"
+          objectClass="org.eclipse.cdt.core.model.ICProject">
+       <action
+             class="org.eclipse.cdt.internal.ui.indexview.RebuildIndexActionDelegate"
+             id="org.eclipse.cdt.ui.rebuildIndexAction"
+             label="%RebuildIndex.name"
+             menubarPath="buildGroup"/>
+    </objectContribution>
+ </extension>
 
 </plugin>
diff --git a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/internal/ui/indexview/RebuildIndexActionDelegate.java b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/internal/ui/indexview/RebuildIndexActionDelegate.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..30f7b942a8e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/internal/ui/indexview/RebuildIndexActionDelegate.java
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+package org.eclipse.cdt.internal.ui.indexview;
+import org.eclipse.cdt.core.CCorePlugin;
+import org.eclipse.cdt.core.dom.IPDOMIndexer;
+import org.eclipse.cdt.core.model.ICProject;
+import org.eclipse.cdt.ui.CUIPlugin;
+import org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException;
+import org.eclipse.jface.action.IAction;
+import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.ISelection;
+import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.IStructuredSelection;
+import org.eclipse.ui.IObjectActionDelegate;
+import org.eclipse.ui.IWorkbenchPart;
+
+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2006 QNX Software Systems and others.
+ * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
+ * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
+ * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+ *
+ * Contributors:
+ * QNX - Initial API and implementation
+ *******************************************************************************/
+
+/**
+ * @author Doug Schaefer
+ *
+ */
+public class RebuildIndexActionDelegate implements IObjectActionDelegate {
+
+	private IWorkbenchPart targetPart;
+	
+	public void setActivePart(IAction action, IWorkbenchPart targetPart) {
+		this.targetPart = targetPart;
+	}
+
+	public void run(IAction action) {
+		ISelection selection = targetPart.getSite().getSelectionProvider().getSelection();
+		if (!(selection instanceof IStructuredSelection))
+			return;
+		
+		Object[] objs = ((IStructuredSelection)selection).toArray();
+		for (int i = 0; i < objs.length; ++i) {
+			if (!(objs[i] instanceof ICProject))
+				continue;
+			
+			ICProject project = (ICProject)objs[i];
+			IPDOMIndexer indexer = CCorePlugin.getPDOMManager().getIndexer(project);
+			try {
+				indexer.reindex();
+			} catch (CoreException e) {
+				CUIPlugin.getDefault().log(e);
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	public void selectionChanged(IAction action, ISelection selection) {
+	}
+
+}