Keyword- transient

The transient keyword is used to indicate to the JVM that the indicated variable is not part of the persistent state of the object. All the Variables which are part of the persistent state of an object are required to be saved when the object is archived. At that time, the transient marker is ignored by the Java runtime system. 

we use transient in a class or instance variable declaration like other modifiers. Serialization process in not applicable to the transient variables.

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