<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="true">The @Transient annotation in JPA is used to exclude specific fields from being persisted in the database.It is helpful for storing temporary data, calculated values, or helper fields that are only relevant during the application's runtime.The annotation is a clear indicator to the JPA provider, such as Hibernate in Spring Boot, to ignore marked fields during the persistence lifecycle.This article explores the purpose and practical use cases of @Transient with Spring Boot and JPA to enhance data model efficiency.