Annotation Type Transient

@Target({METHOD,FIELD})
@Retention(RUNTIME)
public @interface Transient

Specifies that the property or field is not persistent. It is used to annotate a property or field of an entity class, mapped superclass, or embeddable class.

   Example:

   @Entity
   public class Employee {
       @Id int id;
       @Transient User currentUser;
       ...
   }

Since:

Java Persistence 1.0