About transient

[Raja]

What is the meaning of transient in JAVA?

[Kim Fowler]

The transient keyword is intended for use in serialization of objects
- flattening an objects state to a stream of bytes that can be saved
to disc, DB or sent, via RMI, to another machine. Marking a state
variable as 'transient' tells the serialization process that the
contents of this variable should _not_ be saved, usually because it is
JVM specific and will need to be reset when the object is deserialized
and recreated

Examples of variables that would often be marked as 'transient' are
references to :-

- AWT components - due to the underlying native peer references
- Open File handles
- Threads

HTH

On 6 Oct 2000 19:27:00 -0700, "Raja" <awaragi@hotmail.com> did
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>What is the meaning of transient in JAVA?


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Kim

Kim Fowler