How do I prevent Spring from instantiating a prototype scoped bean on context refresh?

The problem is a bit more complicated than I initialy thought. In fact, lazy is the default behaviour for prototype-scoped beans. I digged a bit and I managed to reproduce your problem and find the solution.

So what is the problem?

I use a private, deprecated, no-arg constructor that throws an IllegalStateException. The context loads fine, getBean() with the constructor args works fine, and getBean() without args throws the exception.

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