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javax.persistence.Transient - JPA annotation

javax.persistence
Annotation Transient

Target:
Fields (including property get methods)
Specifies that the property or field is not persistent. It is used to annotate a property or field of an entity class, mapped superclass, or embeddable class.

Example:

    @Entity
    public class Employee {
        @Id int id;
        @Transient User currentUser;
        ...
    }
Since:
JPA 1.0
This annotation is a marker annotation (with no elements).
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