Spring static initialization of a bean

Question

Hey, how one should deal with static initializations in Spring ? I mean, my bean has a static initialization

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Answer 1

Having static dependencies on other beans is not a Spring way.

However, if you want to keep it static, you can initialize it lazily - in that case depends-on can enforce proper initialization order.

EDIT: By lazy loading I mean something like this (I use lazy initialization with holder class idiom here, other lazy initialization idioms can be used instead):

private static class ExceptionMappingHolder {
    private static final Map exceptionMapping = 
        ErrorExceptionMapping.getExceptionMapping(); 
}

and use ExceptionMappingHolder.exceptionMapping instead of exceptionMapping.