Hi Rob,
I have tried the code given here
http://twitter4j.org/en/code-examples.html
This worked but I am getting only a limited number of tweets. Is there a limit on the number tweets per execution? I tried executing the program twice, and I got the same result.
Regarding the link you gave, Is it a REST call(webservice call) where you are sending the request in XML format and getting the response in XML?