JPA Annotation

Transient

Target: METHOD, FIELD
Implemented Interfaces:
Annotation
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 attributes).