Can transient keywords mark a method?

Question

In a java class java.util.Locale, I find that the keyword transient marked a method.

 public final class Locale
    implements Cloneable, Serializable
{
    priv         


        

Answer 1

transient can only be applied to member variables and not to methods so there is a problem here.

Looking at the variable names in your code - things like String s and Object[] aboj - it looks like this source has been generated by decompiling the relevant .class file.

I think there is a bug in whichever decompiler you're using which is erroneously adding transisent to the method declaration.