transient field in slsb

[Mark Lybarger]

is there an advantage to marking fields transient in a slsb?

[Roger Chung-Wee]

No, because session beans are not serialized. Stateful session beans may be passivated, where the rules are similar - but not quite the same - as serialization. And one of those rules is that transient variables in a passivated bean are not guaranteed to be brought back with default values on activation.