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I have written a Drupal module that implements the hook  "_civicrm_tabs"

The url for my custom tab is "civicrm/contact/financialsummarytab"

I have a custom menus.xml file that has the name of my callback class for this menu.

After installing the module,  I would call "http://mywebsite.org/index.php?q=civicrm/menu/rebuild&reset=1" and then the custom tab would start working.  All worked fine under 3.4.3.  But under 3.4.5,  my callback class never gets called. 

I have checked the "civicrm_menus" table, and it seems the row describing my callback class and custom url never got created.  Any ideas?

I am not using the xmlMenu hook, as I do not need a menu item to be visible to the end-user. I just want the CiviCRM controller to know about my callback class, so that it gets called when the end-user clicks my custom tab.

Should I use the xmlMenu hook in this situation?

I am not using the xmlMenu hook, as I do not need a menu item to be visible to the end-user. I just want the CiviCRM controller to know about my callback class, so that it gets called when the end-user clicks my custom tab.

Should I use the xmlMenu hook in this situation?

Yes, you should.

I had some confusion on this, too, owing to the history behind it. In CiviCRM 2.x, hook_civicrm_xmlMenu had dual functionality -- mapping a path to a controller and advertising that path in the visible menu. In CiviCRM 3.x, the menu system underwent some major changes, and these two functions got split apart: the path-controller mappings still go through hook_civicrm_xmlMenu, but the visible menu moved to hook_civicrm_navigationMenu. For your situation, xmlMenu is appropriate, and navigationMenu is inappropriate.