Make hibernate ignore a certain getter method

[deus.machinarum]

hi,
we dont want to store the return value of a certain public getter-method of an Entity-Bean in our DB, but we dont know how to annotate this correctly. Is there something like an @Ignore Tag?
any help very much appreciated....
THX

[tefron]

you can use inheritance . i.e. have your mapped entity extends a java class that handle non persistent properties.