What is the return type of a "count" query against MySQL using Java JDBC?

Question

String query = "SELECT COUNT(*) AS count FROM table1";
ResultSet rs = DBConnection.executeQuery(query);

The above code works fine; however:

long count = rs.getLong("count");

This wont work, it throws SQLException. How should I get data from the ResultSet?

Answer 1

long tmpLong = rs.getLong(1); 

should work from what I can recall.

EDIT:

of course:

rs.next();