binding variable length array

Hello

I have an variable length array in a table that I need to fetch into a Java
structure via JDBC. What is the best way of doing this ? AT the moment, I am
doing this

select array[1], array[2], array[3], array[4] ..

This only works because I know that whilst it varies in size, the array will
never be larger than 4. But this is obviously not very nice.

Thanks

Chris