Prevent context startup on servlet init failure?

[Josh Rehman]

Is there a way to prevent the context from starting up if a servlet 
init() call throws an exception or otherwise fails?

Here's the situation: we have a utility servlet that loads first (using 
<load-on-startup>) and accesses some external resources, checks database 
connections, etc. Then our main application servlet loads. In the case 
where the external dependancy fails, the context still comes up and 
fails at a later point. It would be better practice to have the context 
load fail when our utility servlet init() method throws it's exception.

I was thinking that there might be something in ServletContext that 
would allow the servlet to force the context to dump out. Or perhaps a 
call to System.exit(1) would be appropriate.

I'd really appreciate some advice. Thanks.

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