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@Transient

By default, EclipseLink persistence provider assumes that all the fields of an entity are persistent.

Use the @Transient annotation to specify a field or property of an entity that is not persistent (for example, a field or property that is used at run time, but that is not part of the entity's state).

EclipseLink persistence provider will not persist (or create database schema) for a property or field annotated with @Transient.

This annotation can be used with @Entity, @MappedSuperclass), and @Embeddable.

For more information, see Section 8.1 "Entity" in the JPA Specification.

The @Transient annotation does not have attributes.

The following example shows how to use the @Transient annotation to specify Employee field currentSession as not persistent. EclipseLink persistence provider will not persist this field.

Example: @Transient Annotation

 @Entity
 public class Employee implements Serializable {
     ...
     @Id
     int id;
 
     @Transient
     Session currentSession;
     ...
 }

For more information, see Section 9.1.16 "Transient Annotation" in the JPA Specification.

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