transient
to indicate that they are not part of the persistent state of an object. If an instance of the class Point
:
class Point { int x, y; transient float rho, theta; }were saved to persistent storage by a system service, then only the fields
x
and y
would be saved. This specification does not yet specify details of such services;
we intend to provide them in a future version of this specification.
transient
Fieldstransient
modifier of a field does not break compatibility
with pre-existing binaries.