Disable Spring from Starting up after BeanInstantiationException (Tomcat)
for the project I'm currently working at there is the requirement to disable the webapp context to be started when spring fails to initialize some beans (that call webservices during initialization and therefore are likely to crash then). 

However, when a bean throws any exception during initialization, it looks like this: 

    org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'latestAdsRepository' defined in file [...]: Instantiation of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could not instantiate bean class [...]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is java.io.IOException: SHUT DOWN NOW!!
    ...
    Caused by: org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could not instantiate bean class [...]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is java.io.IOException: SHUT DOWN NOW!!

however the context starts and all references to the bean that was not able to start are _null_. Needless to say, this causes various bad Nullpointer Exceptions all over the place. Especially because this bean is very important for the webapp. 

So I need a way to explicitly tell Spring that this webapp has failed to start if a bean could not be initialized. System.exit(1) however is not an option, because there are also other webapps on this Tomcat server. 

Any ideas? 
Disable Spring from Starting up after BeanInstantiationException (Tomcat)
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for the project I'm currently working at there is the requirement to disable the webapp context to be started when spring fails to initialize some beans (that call webservices during initialization and therefore are likely to crash then). 

However, when a bean throws any exception during initialization, it looks like this: 

    org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'latestAdsRepository' defined in file [...]: Instantiation of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could not instantiate bean class [...]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is java.io.IOException: SHUT DOWN NOW!!
    ...
    Caused by: org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could not instantiate bean class [...]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is java.io.IOException: SHUT DOWN NOW!!

however the context starts and all references to the bean that was not able to start are _null_. Needless to say, this causes various bad Nullpointer Exceptions all over the place. Especially because this bean is very important for the webapp. 

So I need a way to explicitly tell Spring that this webapp has failed to start if a bean could not be initialized. System.exit(1) however is not an option, because there are also other webapps on this Tomcat server. 

Any ideas? 