org.apache.xindice.server
Interface Transient

public interface Transient

Transient is an interface that is implemented by Xindice resources in order to identify themselves as not being part of the persistent state of a user's session. Because many of the basic Java classes implement the Serializable interface, Xindice requires a mechanism by which to recognize that an object is not to be serialized when storing the state of a user's session. This interface only applies to top-level resources and not dependent objects that are serialized in another object's graph.

The Persistent and Transient interfaces are not opposites of each other. Persistent identifies a resource as being a static part of the system's resource management layer. Transient identifies a resource as not being a candidate for User related or distributed serialization.

See Also:

Persistent, User