Can your java function return a resultset?

My query is retrieving a recordset. I want to pass this recordset around so i can do some processing on it. However my compiler complains that my methods (set to return java.sql.ResultSet) have no return statements.
Any ideas on how i can return a java.sql.ResultSet??

Check to make sure that you are actually returning
the ResultSet.

public java.sql.ResultSet executeQuery(java.lang.String SQL)
throws SQLException
{
java.sql.ResultSet _rs = null;
java.sql.Statement _stmt = null;

try
{
_stmt = _con.createStatement();
_rs = _stmt.executeQuery( SQL );
}
catch (SQLException e)
{
throw e;
}
finally
{
<snip>
}
return _rs;
}