sentences:  When a field is declared transient, it would not be serialized even if the class to which it belongs is serialized.In Java, methods, classes and interfaces cannot be declared as transient, because they are never serialized.In Hibernate and other persistence systems, "transient" describes an object that has been instantiated, but is not associated with a Hibernate session, i. e. the object resides in memory but is not being persisted.