> Do you mean WRT serialization or persistence? With
> field-based access neither should be persisted surely? That's
> always been my understanding and also how I'd interpret the
> paragraph from the spec that Kenneth posted.
We were trying to avoid persisting a field in a JPA entity bean and
couldn't figure why it wasn't working. We finally realized we had
"transient", which affects serialization, and not "@Transient" which
affects JPA persistence...
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Jason Lee, SCJP
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