Why does JPA have a @Transient annotation?

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deamon picture deamon · Jan 28, 2010 · Viewed 325.1k times · Source

Java has the transientkeyword. Why does JPA have @Transient instead of simply using the already existing java keyword?

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Jawher picture Jawher · Jan 28, 2010

Java's transient keyword is used to denote that a field is not to be serialized, whereas JPA's @Transient annotation is used to indicate that a field is not to be persisted in the database, i.e. their semantics are different.

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