Converting the resultset to an arraylist

Question

In my application, I was successful in getting connectivity with the Oracle db and successfully queried it.
I checked out that the ResultSet displayed correct values.
Can I convert this ResultSet into some say ArrayList or something so that it remains with me thoughout the execution of the program? I mean I will have to query the database many times, so this ResultSet will need to be closed.
Is there a problem if copy it into another ResultSet object and dont close it ?

Answer 1

Google Pagination, or possibly better, if it all takes place within a single application, is to design a class for this "query" that preforms the query when initialized, then keeps the ResultSet open until some other part of the program calls some method on the class to close everything up, and use access methods to return specific parts of the data from the query.
i.e.
public class Bogus {
  private Connection conn;
  private Statment stmt;
  private ResultSet rs;
  public Bogus () {
    //open conn, perform query, assign rs
  public Object[] getRow() {
    // assign elements in Row to an Object[] and return it
  public void cleanup () {
    //close the rs, stmt, and conn
}Then pass around the reference to this object.