Thorben is an independent consultant, international speaker, and trainer specialized in solving Java persistence problems with JPA and Hibernate. He is also the author of Amazon’s bestselling book Hibernate Tips – More than 70 solutions to common Hibernate problems. Thorben has been working with Java and Java EE for almost 20 years and was a member of the CDI 2.0 expert group (JSR 365). He writes about JPA, Hibernate and other persistence-related topics on his blog www.thorben-janssen.com.