These two annotations have been requested before. Idea is if we do:
class Pojo
{
@Transient
Object obj1;
@Serializable
Object obj2;
...
}
then during replication/persistency, we will 1) skip obj1, 2) treat obj2 as a Serializable object (so it needs to implement Serializable interface), even it is an "aspectized" Pojo originally.
Note that I will provide JDK5.0 support only.
Couple of additional notes:
1. For @Transient annotation, so there is no contents in the cache store. When a user do a pojo.getObj1(), we will return the value from the in-memory copy. Likewise, for setObject1().
2. For @Serializable annotation, when a user do a:
newObj = pojo.getObj2();
newObj.setName("Me");
The setName call won't get intercepted by cache because of Serializable interface and as a result, the changes won't get replicated unless user is doing pojo.setObj2(newObj) again (typically of regular cache operation.)
