Exceptions in init-method

[viiids]

What happens when an init method throws an exception ?
Suppose i have the following definition :
<bean id="exampleInitBean" class="examples.ExampleBean" init-method="checkInitialization"/> and checkInitialization method throws an exception. At what point will this exception be caught and how will my application come to know about it.

[rajesh_parab]

You will get exception while loading the application context
and your bean creation failed.

You must handle ( write catch block ) to handle the exception and do not rethrow if you want to go ahead with bean creation if exception is ignorable.

[viiids]

If the exception is caught, then will the object creation proceed successfully ?

[rajesh_parab]

Yes. But objects state may be invalid it depends on your requirement.
Thats why i wrote if that exception is imporant and must fix to have object in valid state and usable inspite of exception.