Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)

Batch inserting did wonders for my app's performance, so I figured I'd do the same to improve my selections. That's when I hit:

sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcBatchUpdateException: SQL Attempt to produce a ResultSet from executeBatch

In reading the lists I've seen precursery claims I can't batch select, but I'd like more of an explaination. The javadoc seems to claim it's possible, yes? So is the functionality based on some driver or something else I can swap out with one that can handle batch selects? I'm using Java 1.4 with MS SQL Server.

thanks.