Graceful handling of exception thrown while creating beans

Question

I want my Spring MVC web app to gracefully handle a particular type of exception thrown while creating the beans.

The construction of one of my beans reads configura

Answer 1

I worked around this difficulty by introducing a level of indirection. My bean is really just a handle. If the configuration file is bad, the bean catches the exception, logs a message, and notes that reading failed. Accessing the bean later then throws a suitable exception.