Mark Spritzler
Mark teaches many classes for SpringSource as a contract trainer
Mark is the owner of Perfect World Programming a training and consulting company. 99% of Mark's work is done through SpringSource teaching Spring's Core Spring, Spring with Hibernate and Enterprise Integration with Spring.
Mark has over 20 years software development for many businesses and industries specializing in middle tier and backend development. As a former DBA and Architect Mark focuses on data driven applications that are both performant and robust.
Mark can also be found at www.javaranch.com answering questions in the Spring Framework forum. He was also part of the SCJP 5.0 exam creation team and technical editor for a few books.
Presentations
Using JPA effectively with Spring
In this talk we will show you how to use JPA effectively in your Spring Application making sure it is easy to maintain while being very fast.
We will cover the concepts of JPA that are THE most important for writing a successful JPA application. Fetching strategies, Cascade Options, Cache Modes and Flush modes must be fully understood if you want to be a JPA expert. How you define your queries and mapping make a huge impact on the performance of your application. You can make an application run faster with JPA than JDBC, and in this talk we will show you how.