[java] What does void do in java?

The return type—the data type of the value returned by the method, or void if the method does not return a value.

http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/javaOO/methods.html

Okay, then.. Here is my question:

public class EnumTest {
    Day day;

    public EnumTest(Day day) {
        this.day = day;
    }

    public void tellItLikeItIs() {
        switch (day) {
            case MONDAY: System.out.println("Mondays are bad.");
                         break;

            case FRIDAY: System.out.println("Fridays are better.");
                         break;

            case SATURDAY:
            case SUNDAY: System.out.println("Weekends are best.");
                         break;

            default:     System.out.println("Midweek days are so-so.");
                         break;
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        EnumTest firstDay = new EnumTest(Day.MONDAY);
        firstDay.tellItLikeItIs();
        EnumTest thirdDay = new EnumTest(Day.WEDNESDAY);
        thirdDay.tellItLikeItIs();
        EnumTest fifthDay = new EnumTest(Day.FRIDAY);
        fifthDay.tellItLikeItIs();
        EnumTest sixthDay = new EnumTest(Day.SATURDAY);
        sixthDay.tellItLikeItIs();
        EnumTest seventhDay = new EnumTest(Day.SUNDAY);
        seventhDay.tellItLikeItIs();


    }
}

http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/javaOO/enum.html

The above code does not work without void.

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Error: Unresolved compilation problems: 
    The method tellItLikeItIs() is undefined for the type EnumTest

What did I miss out? Why is there a void in there? And it does return a string?

void means it returns nothing. It does not return a string, you write a string to System.out but you're not returning one.

You must specify what a method returns, even if you're just saying that it returns nothing.

Technically speaking they could have designed the language such that if you don't write a return type then it's assumed to return nothing, however making you explicitly write out void helps to ensure that the lack of a returned value is intentional and not accidental.

Void doesn't return anything; it tells the compiler the method doesn't have a return value.

Void: the type modifier void states that the main method does not return any value. All parameters to a method are declared inside a prior of parenthesis. Here String args[ ] declares a parameter named args which contains an array of objects of the class type string.

You mean the tellItLikeItIs method? Yes, you have to specify void to specify that the method doesn't return anything. All methods have to have a return type specified, even if it's void.

It certainly doesn't return a string - look, there are no return statements anywhere. It's not really clear why you think it is returning a string. It's printing strings to the console, but that's not the same thing as returning one from the method.

When the return type is void, your method doesn't return anything.

Look again at your code: There's no return in that method. You print to the console and exit.