Benefits and drawbacks of method chaining and a possibility to replace all void return parameters by the object itself

Question

I am mostly interested in Java, but I think it\'s a general question. Recently I\'ve been working with Arquillian framework (ShrinkWrap) that uses a lot of meth

Answer 1

It a considerable amount of work. Especially when inheritance is involved. Have a look at this great article about the builder pattern

It makes a lot of sense to implement it when you expect that clients will call several methods on the same instance sequentially e.g. builder pattern, immutable objects, etc. But in my opinion in most cases it doesn't really worth the extra effort.