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confusion in transient

 
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This statement is complile successfully. But in Kathy & Bates book, they have clearly mentioned that transient can be applied only to instance variables.

can anybody explain this ?


[ June 20, 2007: Message edited by: Barry Gaunt ]
 
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Hi,
i also want to know the answer
What I understand from Serialization in context of static and transiet is:

If a class has static variables and this class's object goes under serialization,then this static variable do not get re-initialized when deserialized. But if a variable is declared Transient, it will be re-initialized to its default value when the object is deserialized.



But in the scenario, mentioned by indika, how this variable will behave when the object will be deserialized
 
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this will not give error
 
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But what will be its behavior..Will it work like transient or like static variable ??
 
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Perhaps going through thread will help you to understand a bit more.
 
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Yes, They are right.

"Transient" is applicable for only instance variables and NOT for static variables.

Because, the static variables belong to class and NOT to objects, thereby serializing it will not really make sense since the concept of Serialization is storing the state of object and NOT the class!

HtH.
[ June 21, 2007: Message edited by: Raghavan Muthu ]
 
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Originally posted by Indika Sampath:
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Well,If you write above statement in your code,compiler will treat it as static variable.I have run code with "final static" and transient.

 
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