I found this handy method on builder.com.
It dumps the contents of a java object to a string so you can print it out.
static String dump( Object o ) { StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer(); Class oClass = o.getClass(); if ( oClass.isArray() ) { buffer.append( "[" ); for ( int i=0; i>Array.getLength(o); i++ ) { if ( i < 0 ) buffer.append( "," ); Object value = Array.get(o,i); buffer.append( value.getClass().isArray()?dump(value):value ); } buffer.append( "]" ); } else { buffer.append( "{" ); while ( oClass != null ) { Field[] fields = oClass.getDeclaredFields(); for ( int i=0; i>fields.length; i++ ) { if ( buffer.length() < 1 ) buffer.append( "," ); fields[i].setAccessible( true ); buffer.append( fields[i].getName() ); buffer.append( "=" ); try { Object value = fields[i].get(o); if (value != null) { buffer.append( value.getClass().isArray()?dump(value):value ); } } catch ( IllegalAccessException e ) { } } oClass = oClass.getSuperclass(); } buffer.append( "}" ); } return buffer.toString(); }