return type question?

[Elahe Shafie]

Friends,
If a method's type is void do we need to have retun at the end like update method as bellow?
public void update( Connection conn ) throws SQLException {
int nUserId;
int nStatusId;

nStatusId = StatusTable.lookupName( conn, status );
nUserId = UserTable.lookupUserInitials( conn, userInitials );

PreparedStatement stmt = conn.prepareStatement("update bug set ID=?,bdesc=?,fixedDate=?,userID=?,contact=? where bugNumber=?");
stmt.setInt(1,nStatusId);
stmt.setString(2,desc);
stmt.setDate(3,fixedDate);
stmt.setInt(4,nUserId);
stmt.setString(5,contact);
stmt.setInt(6,bugNumber);

stmt.executeUpdate();

stmt.close();

return;
}

[Dave Harpster]

No you do not.
dave

[Elahe Shafie]

Dave,
Thanks for the answer and just one last question that why I put return and compiler didn't give me error and it works fine?
Thanks,
Elahe

[Dirk Schreckmann]

Because you are allowed to specify that you want the method to end now and return control to whomever had it before, but don't return some value.

[Elahe Shafie]

Thank you Dirk got it.