Can't define a private static final variable because it throws an exception

Question

I have a class like:

public class SomeClassImpl implements SomeClass {
   private static final SomeLib someLib = new SomeLib();
}

I can\'t

Answer 1

If initialising a variable is likely to fail, then it is likely a poor candidate to be static.

Statics are good for [effective] immutables, (with care) caches of immutables and little else.