Hi Andy,
On Jul 18, 2007, at 11:36 PM, Andy Jefferson wrote:
>> 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 ?
Sounds good. I'll take a closer look at using @Persistent and see if
everything can be made consistent.
Thanks,
Craig
>
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> Andy (Java Persistent Objects - http://www.jpox.org)
Craig Russell
Architect, Sun Java Enterprise System http://java.sun.com/products/jdo
408 276-5638 mailto:Craig.Russell@sun.com
P.S. A good JDO? O, Gasp!
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