SQL & PL/SQL

I have an interesting problem. We have created a standard pattern for all of our "get" functions for returning data to always return a sys_refcursor to our JAVA application as it is very easy to deal with cursors and convert them to Java Collection objects (i.e. List). I'm having an issue though with the fact that some of our lower level (DML layer) pl sql code returns [TABLE_NAME]%rowtype types. I haven't found a way for jdbc to handle this type of structure, and have found some people saying that is just can't (which makes sense).

What I would like to pose is if anyone has a clever way to manually create a cursor and insert the %rowtype object into it. It sounds simple enough, but I've tried a few approaches and nothing works. Maybe I'm just too tired or it's simply not possible.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.