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1. Is it bad practice to make a setter return "this"?    stackoverflow.com

Is it a good or bad idea to make setters in java return "this"?

public Employee setName(String name){
   this.name = name;
   return this;
}

This pattern can be useful because ...

2. Setting values of an object    stackoverflow.com

Let's say I've got a class called House with the two fields

name
address

Each of these fields has got a getter and a setter. Now I want another method in the House class called ...