> Have I ever told you how much I *hate* using @Transient to describe > @NotPersistent? Transient is a serialization concept and I have no > trouble with a field that is both transient and persistent. That is, > not serialized but stored in the database. So calling something > @Transient is a big ugly blotch. Because if it's really transient, > you should mark it in the class as transient.
No. You never told me ;-) nor did anybody else object when those annotations were added a longggg time ago. So why not @NotPersistent ? -- Andy (Java Persistent Objects - http://www.jpox.org)
