OO design question

I'm starting to get involved with Java and Oracle and have pondered this question before but never really liked my answers. Assuming you're going to do a number of database actions, multiple selects, updates, inserts, etc. on a database, does it make any sense to define a class to interact with the database to isolate DB activity to a single class or would you simply form the queries, etc. in each of the classes as you need them? Isolating them seems to make sense, but then it would be more difficult to read the code I would think. I'm leaning toward doing it that way, generating a method for each of the various actions I need to perform and, hopefully documenting them so it will be evident what is happening.

Any other ideas?

Thanks,
Jim. Received on Tue Feb 26 2002 - 13:41:36 CST