Is there a friendlier view of BeanCreationException / ApplicationContext load problems

After some research, and the suggestion of @klorand, I came across three ways of improving the way IntelliJ display stack traces:

1. You can click on the "use soft wraps" icon on the right side of the window. This will prevent horizontal scrolling, making any information that exceeds the window width to be displayed on a new line.

   

2. There is a configuration on IntelliJ called console folding. You can specify filters for IntelliJ to hide certain packages from the stack trace. Simply click any line of the stack on the "Debug" window and select "Fold Lines Like This". This will open up a configuration window similar to this one:

   

   In this example, all console lines that contains at sun.reflect will be folded. I have been constantly adding new filters, and using this configuration to make my stack traces vertically smaller.

3. You can use Logback to customize the way logs are shown in the console. I used the following configuration on my logback.xml file to truncate all warning and error messages logged on console. With format configuration you can specify min/max width and justification. I have hidden package and method information, so that only the core message would be shown, but you can also specify the limit number of characters to be shown, or even customize a custom converter.

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Combining these three configuration settings will help you make console messages vertically or horizontally smaller, and take more control over how log messages are shown or console, or saved to a file.