Hello,
I am using Hibernate 3.3 with annotation support. In my entity class, I marked a field as transient using
.
I expected this field to be non persistent and its values not to be updated in the database. But when i executed the application and called a NamedNativeQuery it updated the table with the mentioned transient variable. I could see the update statements using the show_sql property.
But i could not understand why the Hibernate had to update the table when I executed a named query for selection of rows.

I tried my application with @Transient and here although a column was created for the transient variable but the values were not updated.
But my requirement was not met as @Transient did not update the variable at the application level also. So when the getter method was called it returned a blank value.
Any help here would be great. Thanks.

Using annotation @Transient is to tell hibernate that the field is not going to be mapped on database; It will not create the column either, you may still have a column on database because it is not going to remove old columns automatically: you could try deleting the whole schema and generating a new one, or delete the column manually and verify hibernate is not going to regenerate it again.
The java keyword "transient" has nothing to do with hibernate, and you really should not use it for mapping purposes unless you serialize entities as BLOBs.

What are you trying to do? Did I answer you questions?

regards,
Sanne