I am still working on JDBC- this is one of my classes which has a connect and close method

import java.util.*;
import java.sql.*;

public class DatabaseUtils
{
public static Connection con(String driver- String url- String username- String password)
throws ClassNotFoundException- SQLException
{
Class.forName(driver);

return DriverManager.getConnection(url- username- password);
}

// Similar methods to close Statement and ResultSet
public static void close(Connection connection)
{
try
{
if (connection != null)
{
connection.close();
}
}
catch (SQLException e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
Heres another class which uses the DatabaseUtils class

import java.util.*;
import java.sql.*;

public class PersonDAO{

public void savePerson(PersonInfo person)
{

String driver = "oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver";
String url = "jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:XE";
String userName = "jason";
String passWord = "donavan";

try
{
Connection con = DatabaseUtils.con(driver- url- userName- passWord);

String sql = "INSERT INTO Person(name- idNo- " +
"userName- passWord) VALUES (?-?-?-?) ";

// Create a Preparedstatement
PreparedStatement ps = con.prepareStatement(sql);

ps.setString(1- person.getName());
ps.setString(2- person.getIdNo());
ps.setString(3- person.getUsername());
ps.setString(4- person.getPassword());

ps.executeUpdate();
}
catch(Exception e){
System.out.println(e);
}
}

}// end class PersonDAO
But what i need to do is make Connection a private data member in my PersonDao implementation instead of instantiates its own Connection. How would i do this?
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