Is it bad practice to make a setter return “this”?

Question

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

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

Answer 1

I'm in favor of setters having "this" returns. I don't care if it's not beans compliant. To me, if it's okay to have the "=" expression/statement, then setters that return values is fine.