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• Returning this from a nonprivate (possibly final) method invoked from the constructor of an object under construction
• Passing this as an argument to an alien method invoked from the constructor of an object under construction.
• Publishing this using public static variables from the constructor of an object under construction
• Calling a non-final method from a constructor (MET04-J. Ensure that constructors do not call overridable methods)
• Overriding the finalizer of a non-final class and obtaining the this reference of a partially initialized instance, when the construction of the object ceases (OBJ04-J. Do not allow partially initialized objects to be accessed). Also see OBJ08-J. Avoid using finalizers. This usually happens when the constructor throws exceptions.
• Passing internal object state to an alien method. This enables the method to retrieve the "this" reference of the internal object.

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