How to get a JPA-persisted String[] column by ResultSet#getString() in JDBC?

I want to store multiple checkbox values in a single DB column. I don't want to store in a seperate table with @OneToMany.

This is the JPA entity:

@Entity
@Table(name="COOK")
...
@Column(name="ARRAY_FOOD" )
private String[] arrayFood;
...getter and setters...

Here are the checkbox values (JSF):

<h:selectManyCheckbox value="#{foodBean.selectedModel.arrayFood}" layout="lineDirection">
    <f:selectItem itemLabel="FISH"       itemValue="FISH"           />
    <f:selectItem itemLabel="SOUP"       itemValue="SOUP"           />
    <f:selectItem itemLabel="CAKE"       itemValue="CAKE"           />
    <f:selectItem itemLabel="1/2 WATER"  itemValue="1/2 WATER"      />
    <f:selectItem itemLabel="BANANA 1KG" itemValue="BANANA 1KG"     />
</h:selectManyCheckbox>

JPA stores the submitted checked values as follows:

Column Name Data Typ开发者_开发百科e   Sample Data
----------------------------------------
ARRAY_FOOD  RAW (255)   ACED0005757200135B4C6A6176612E6C616E672E537472696E673BADD256E7E91D7B4702000078700000000174000141

How can I get the original array by ResultSet in aother program?

String array = rs.getString("ARRAY_FOOD");  // ???????????

Or how can I format it in a understandable format like so in other program I can split it by char like ";" :

FISH;SOUP;BANANA 1KG

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By default serializable types that are not supported database types are serialized. You would need to use Java serialization to get these types back outside of JPA.

You could instead use a @Converter to convert the array as you wish if using EclipseLink.

You could also use get/set method to convert the value, see,

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Java_Persistence/Basic_Attributes#Conversion