tibel,
No disagreement that I should avoid throwing exceptions in getters.
The actual exception I introduced was not intentional and I ended up spending extra time when things did not occur as expected.
Following the stack overflow link in your response, I was able to use information from
http://www.jasonbock.net/jb/Default.aspx?blog=entry.0f221e047de740ee90722b248933a28d
and
http://stackoverflow.com/a/11632148/550075
in order to have binding errors be thrown as exceptions.
Thanks for your quick response,
James