Java: Alternative to passing “this” as constructor argument in order to reference creating object

Question

I\'ve spent a while thinking about different solutions that the one I went for as I\'ve read around (I am not really experienced with Java yet) that using this for a constructor

Answer 1

You should try using a static factory method (Effective Java link).

This way you avoid passing this in a constructor call, which is highly ill-advised to say the least.
example code:

public class JobGroupMod implements JobGroup {

    public static JobGroupMod createModeMod(Node n, Set clusterJobs) {
        JobGroup jg = new JobGroupMod();
        JobMod j = new JobMod(n, jg);
        return jg;
    }
}