factory objects (idle thoughts)

  I read this in the world wide web:

      ?Having dismissed constructors and static factories, it
      seems we need to define a factory class whose instances
      will support an interface that includes a method that
      constructs the desired objects. How will you create the
      factory object? By calling a constructor? Or by defining
      a meta-factory? After how many meta-meta-meta- ..
      meta-factories do you give up and call a constructor??

http://gbracha.blogspot.com/2007/06/constructors-considered-harmful.html

  One answer that came to my mind:

  An application may use a constructor /once/ to get its first
  object, thereafter it uses only factory methods of this
  object and other objects to get all other objects.

  (This might have nothing to do with practical Java
  programming, I know.)

  It reminds me of Amiga programming, where, in 1985,
  programmers learned that there is /one/ fixed address, i.e,
  the address 4. So an application would go to address 4 to
  find the base address of the system library object (it was
  not called ?object?, then) and all other objects it would
  retrieve directly or indirectly from this object.