I have a JPA column that Im GOING to mark as @Transient. But I do have some data in that field that I want to move later.
I know that @Transient won't persist. But, can I still load those existing data to the memory to the Java world?
No @Transient
prevents JPA/Hibernate from any data access operation.
But if you have a field that you only want to read you can mark it read-only:
@Column(insertable = false, updatable = false)
private String transientField;