Inline::java type issues

[Webber Paul-W91476C]

I'm an extreme novice at the java thing, and I'm an intermediate perl user so 
please excuse the poorly phrased/understood question.
 
I'm trying to retrieve an XML document using a java class, through perl, and 
I'm having a hard time converting the resulting returned java object/document 
into something useful in perl land.
 
Here's the perl that I'm using:
 
JavaXMLGrabber.pm
package JavaXMLGrabber;
use strict; use warnings;
 
BEGIN {
     $ENV{CLASSPATH} .= ":/home/paulw/javaclassdir/";
}
 
use Inline Java => 'STUDY',
        DEBUG => 1,
        STUDY => ['com.somecompany.xmltools.JavaXMLGrabber.DeviceEmulator'];
 
sub new {
        my $class = shift;
        return 
JavaXMLGrabber::com::somecompany.xmltools.JavaXMLGrabber::DeviceEmulator->new(@_);
}
 
1;

java_test.pl
#! /usr/bin/perl
 
use strict; use warnings;
 
use JavaXMLGrabber;
 
my $grabber = JavaXMLGrabber->new();
$grabber->getUpdate();
my $xml = $grabber->getLastUpdateDocument();
print $xml, "\n";

Here's a part of the java code that I'm calling upon:
package com.somecompany.xmltools.JavaXMLGrabber;
 
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Hashtable;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
 
import com.somecompany.xmltools.JavaXMLGrabber.error.FeedException;
import org.jdom.Document;
import org.jdom.Element;

public class DeviceEmulator
{
 
  /* ......... the rest of the java ...........*/
 
  public Document getLastUpdateDocument()
  {
    return lastUpdateDocument;
  }
 
I've used ethereal to ensure that when I run java_test.pl, I see the 
appropriate get requests go out to the web server where the XML resides, and I 
see the appropriate XML document returned to my server, however when trying to 
retrieve that document I run into issues...
 
The result of the print in java_test.pl is this: 
Inline::Java::Object=HASH(0x8511500)
 
Why do I not get the entire XML document in the print of $xml? Do I need to 
coerce the resulting document into a string? If it is a coercion issue where 
would I need to perform the coerce and how would I go about doing it?
 
Or am I going about this the wrong way? Is this more of a java question than an 
inline::java one? Should I be passing the resulting java document into the jdom 
document constructor (or something of the like) so that I can use a getContent 
method? Should this be done in the java class instead of the perl 
script/program?
 
Thanks,
 

Paul W