What is a transient variable?

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Explain the usage of the keyword transient?

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What are Transient and Volatile Modifiers

A transient variable is a variable that may not be serialized i.e. the value of the variable can’t be written to the stream in a Serializable class. If you don't want some field to be serialized, you can mark that field transient or static. In such a case when the class is retrieved from the ObjectStream the value of the variable is null.

Volatile modifier applies to variables only and it tells the compiler that the variable modified by volatile can be changed unexpectedly by other parts of the program.