This is an application design decision that will depend on how you want to
handle failure in general.
If the application cannot run without being able to start the component,
then it is appropriate to throw an exception from the component's `start`
method. This will abort the system start. The
If a component discovers it cannot start successfully (e.g. some necessary
bit of data is badly formatted), how can it tell the system that it's hosed
and therefore all dependents are hosed?
Should it throw an exception to stop everything?
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