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Question: Explain the usage of the keyword transient?
Answer: This keyword indicates that the value of this member variable does not have to be serialized with the object. When the class will be de-serialized, this variable will be initialized with a default value of its data type (i.e. zero for integers).
For example:
class T { transient int a; // will not persist int b; // will persist }
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.Date;

public class Logon implements Serializable {
	private Date date = new Date();
	private String username;
	private transient String password;
	
	public Logon(String name, String pwd) {
		username = name;
		password = pwd;
	}
	public String toString() {
		String pwd = (password == null) ? "(n/a)" : password;
		return "logon info: n username: " + username + "n date: " + date
		+ "n password: " + pwd;
	}

	public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
		Logon a = new Logon("Hulk", "myLittlePony");
		System.out.println("logon a = " + a);
		ObjectOutputStream o = new ObjectOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(
		"Logon.out"));
		o.writeObject(a);
		o.close();
		Thread.sleep(1000); // Delay for 1 second
		// Now get them back:
		ObjectInputStream in = new ObjectInputStream(new FileInputStream(
		"Logon.out"));
		System.out.println("Recovering object at " + new Date());
		a = (Logon) in.readObject();
		System.out.println("logon a = " + a);
	}
}

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