Correct way of making a singleton a Spring bean

Question

I am converting a singleton to a Spring bean, so that if the singleton fails to initialize, then entire web application\'s spring context doesn\'t load properly.

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Answer 1

According to me this is a belts-and-suspenders solution.

If you create a bean and declare it as a singleton in the configuration then there should be no need to protect the bean against being multiply created.

You are now basically protecting yourself from someone wrongly configuring the bean.

I personally would "solve" that by documentation in the spring configuration and Javadoc.