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

Bad habit: a setter set a getter get

what about explicitly declaring a method, that does it for U

setPropertyFromParams(array $hashParamList) { ... }