Use of ROWID in Oracle 9i

Question

I was hoping to do something like the following to retrieve a ROWID and then later retrieve that same record:
String rowid = rs.getString("ROWID");
// .. lots of code snipped here
stmt.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM tbl WHERE ROWID='" + rowid + "'");
The problem is that 'rs' has a value such as "414141414C58414144414141414136414149" while SQL*Plus shows the rowid as "AAAALXAADAAAAA6AAI". Consequently the SELECT does not find the correct record. Obviously the "4141..." string is just the "AA..." string after converting each character to hex.
Outside of manually re-converting the ROWID from hex back to chars, how can I use it to re-select the row of interest? I'm using java.sql.* rather than oracle.jdbc.*.
Thanks.

Answer 1

    String rowid = null;
    DriverManager.registerDriver(new OracleDriver());
    Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:oracle:thin:scott/tiger@localhost:1521:ias904");
    Statement stmt = conn.createStatement();   
    ResultSet rset = stmt.executeQuery(" SELECT ROWID,EmpNO FROM EMP Where EMPNO = 7654");
    if(rset.next()) {
      rowid = rset.getString(1);
    rset.close();
    stmt.close();
    PreparedStatement pstmt = conn.prepareStatement("SELECT EmpNo FROM EMP WHERE rowid=?");   
    pstmt.setString(1, rowid);
    rset = pstmt.executeQuery();
    if(rset.next()) {
      System.out.println(rset.getString(1));
    rset.close();
    pstmt.close();   
    conn.close();Regards
Elango.