新手看到java中的transient

[quote]最近一段时间想把集合部分复习下，上午没事情做，读读jdk自带的src，看ArrayList类时，第二条语句难倒了我！[/quote]

private transient Object[] elementData;

transient关键字是什么意思啊！学java零零散散也有1年了，真是孤陋寡闻啊……
看看下面的例子，一个登陆时，密码与ID,密码最后没打印，就会明白transient 是干什么了。

import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
import java.util.Date;

public class LoggingInfo implements java.io.Serializable {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
    private Date loggingDate = new Date();
    private String uid;
    private transient String pwd;

    LoggingInfo(String user, String password) {
        uid = user;
        pwd = password;
    }

    public String toString() {
        String password = null;
        if (pwd == null) {
            password = "NOT SET";
        } else {
            password = pwd;
        }
        return "logon info: \n   " + "user: " + uid + "\n   logging date : "
                + loggingDate.toString() + "\n   password: " + password;
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        LoggingInfo logInfo = new LoggingInfo("MIKE", "MECHANICS");
        System.out.println(logInfo.toString());
        try {
            ObjectOutputStream o = new ObjectOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(
                    "logInfo.out"));
            o.writeObject(logInfo);
            o.close();
        } catch (Exception e) {// deal with exception

        }

        // To read the object back, we can write
        try {
            ObjectInputStream in = new ObjectInputStream(new FileInputStream(
                    "logInfo.out"));
            LoggingInfo logInfo1 = (LoggingInfo) in.readObject();
            System.out.println(logInfo1.toString());
        } catch (Exception e) {// deal with exception

        }
    }
}

[quote]在上面代码中，transient变量的值不会被写入到对象流中，由transient修饰的变量在序列化时不保存状态[/quote]
打印结果：
logon info:
user: MIKE
logging date : Wed Mar 18 02:43:51 GMT 2009
password: MECHANICS
logon info:
user: MIKE
logging date : Wed Mar 18 02:43:51 GMT 2009
password: NOT SET