Make hibernate ignore class variables that are not mapped [duplicate]

Answer 1

For folks who find this posting through the search engines, another possible cause of this problem is from importing the wrong package version of @Transient. Make sure that you import javax.persistence.transient and not some other package.

Answer 2

Placing @Transient on getter with private field worked for me.

private String name;

    @Transient
    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

Answer 3

JPA will use all properties of the class, unless you specifically mark them with @Transient:

@Transient
private String agencyName;

The @Column annotation is purely optional, and is there to let you override the auto-generated column name. Furthermore, the length attribute of @Column is only used when auto-generating table definitions, it has no effect on the runtime.