Registering beans(prototype) at runtime in Spring

Just need something evaluated by the community. Following is a snippet of code, which is a simple factory that creates instances of a particular type. The method will register the bean in the context as a prototype and return the instance. This is the first time I am configuring beans at run time. Could you kindly evaluate and provide feedback? thank you in advance.

package au.com.flexcontacts.flexoperations;

import org.springframework.beans.BeansException;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.BeanDefinition;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.ConstructorArgumentValues;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.support.GenericBeanDefinition;
import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContextAware;
import org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext;

import au.com.flexcontacts.exceptions.SyncClassCreactionError;

/**
 * @author khushroo.mistry
 * Class purpose: Simple Factory to create an 
 * instance of SynchroniseContactsService and register it in the Spring IoC.
 */
public final class FLEXSyncFactory implements ApplicationContextAware {

    private static AbstractApplicationContext context;


    /**
     * @param username
     * @param password
     * @param syncType
     * @return the correct service class
     * @throws SyncClassCreactionError
     * The method registers the classes dynamically into the Spring IoC
     */
    public final SynchroniseContactsService createSyncService(String username, String password, SyncType syncType) throws SyncClassCreactionError {

        DefaultListableBeanFactory beanFactory = (DefaultListableBeanFactory) context.getBeanFactory();

        try {

            //Register the bean in the IoC
            BeanDefinition bdb = new GenericBeanDefinition();
            bdb.setBeanClassName(syncType.getClassName());
            bdb.setScope("prototype");
            ConstructorArgumentValues constructor = bdb.getConstructorArgumentValues();
            constructor.addIndexedArgumentValue(0, username);
            constructor.addIndexedArgumentValue(1, password);
            beanFactory.registerBeanDefinition(syncType.getInstanceName(), bdb);

            //Return instance of bean
            return (SynchroniseContactsService) beanFactory.getBean(syncType.getInstanceName());
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            throw new SyncClassCreactionError("Error: Illegal Handler");
        }

    }

    public void setApplicationContext(ApplicationContext applicationContext)
    throws BeansException {
        context = (AbstractApplicationContext) applicationContext;

    }

}

FLEX Sync factory has been configured in the IoC container as a singleton. So to create a new sync manager I do the following:

flexSyncFactory.createSyncService(userName, password, SyncType.FULL);

I am using Spring 3.1. Please review and provide your valuable feedback.

kind regards.