Make the field as transient to not persist

Transient fields are not persisted into database.

package myFirstHibernate;

import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.Id;

@Entity
public class Employee {
 @Id
 @Column(name="emp_id")
 private int id;
 private String firstName;
 private String lastName;
 private String designation;
 private int age;
 private double salary;
 private transient String hobbies;
  
 public String getHobbies() {
  return hobbies;
 }

 public void setHobbies(String hobbies) {
  this.hobbies = hobbies;
 }

 public int getId() {
  return id;
 }
 
 public void setId(int id) {
  this.id = id;
 }
 
 public String getFirstName() {
  return firstName;
 }
 
 public void setFirstName(String firstName) {
  this.firstName = firstName;
 }
 
 public String getLastName() {
  return lastName;
 }
 
 public void setLastName(String lastName) {
  this.lastName = lastName;
 }
 
 public String getDesignation() {
  return designation;
 }
 
 public void setDesignation(String designation) {
  this.designation = designation;
 }
 
 public int getAge() {
  return age;
 }
 
 public void setAge(int age) {
  this.age = age;
 }
 
 public double getSalary() {
  return salary;
 }
 
 public void setSalary(double salary) {
  this.salary = salary;
 }
 
}

hibernate.cfg.xml

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC
        "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD 3.0//EN"
        "http://www.hibernate.org/dtd/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-configuration>

  <session-factory>
  
   <!--  Database Connection settings -->
    <property name="connection.driver_class">com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</property>
    <property name="connection.url">jdbc:mysql://localhost/sample</property>
    <property name="connection.username">root</property>
    <property name="connection.password">tiger</property>
    
    <!-- Enable the logging of all the generated SQL statements to the console -->
    <property name="show_sql">true</property>
    
    <!-- Format the generated SQL statement to make it more readable, -->
    <property name="format_sql">false</property>
    
    <!-- Hibernate will put comments inside all generated SQL statements to hint what’s the generated SQL trying to do -->
    <property name="use_sql_comments">false</property>
    
    <!-- This property makes Hibernate generate the appropriate SQL for the chosen database. -->
    <property name="dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</property>
    
    <!-- Drop and re-create the database schema on startup -->
    <property name="hbm2ddl.auto">create</property>
    
    <!-- mappings for annotated classes -->
    <mapping class="myFirstHibernate.Employee" />
    
  </session-factory>
  
</hibernate-configuration>

TestEmployee.java

package myFirstHibernate;

import org.hibernate.Session;
import org.hibernate.SessionFactory;
import org.hibernate.boot.registry.StandardServiceRegistryBuilder;
import org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration;


public class TestEmployee {
 
 /* Step 1: Create session factory */
 private static SessionFactory getSessionFactory() {
  Configuration configuration = new Configuration().configure();
  StandardServiceRegistryBuilder builder = new StandardServiceRegistryBuilder().
  applySettings(configuration.getProperties());
  SessionFactory factory = configuration.buildSessionFactory(builder.build());
        return factory;
    }
 
 public static void main(String args[]){
  Employee emp1 = new Employee();
  emp1.setAge(26);
  emp1.setDesignation("Senior Software Developer");
  emp1.setFirstName("Hari Krishna");
  emp1.setId(1);
  emp1.setLastName("Gurram");
  emp1.setSalary(80000);
  emp1.setHobbies("Writing blog");
  
  SessionFactory sessionFactory = getSessionFactory();
  Session session = sessionFactory.openSession();
  session.beginTransaction();
  session.save(emp1);
  session.getTransaction().commit();
  session.close();  
 }
}

Run TestEmployee.java, you can see output like below.

Hibernate: drop table if exists Employee
Hibernate: create table Employee (emp_id integer not null, age integer not null, designation varchar(255), firstName varchar(255), lastName varchar(255), salary double precision not null, primary key (emp_id))
Dec 19, 2014 11:55:46 PM org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaExport execute
INFO: HHH000230: Schema export complete
Hibernate: insert into Employee (age, designation, firstName, lastName, salary, emp_id) values (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)

As you observe the output, the field hobbies is not persisted into database.

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