How can a developer prevent a field from being serialized?

In Java, to prevent a field from being serialized, you can mark it as transient. When a field is marked as transient, it will not be included in the serialization process. The other options do not directly prevent serialization. Marking a field as final has no impact on serialization. Marking it as static means the field will be serialized. Marking it as private affects only access, not serialization.