About the Developer

Sonal Bansal is an independent software developer and technical writer. He has more than six years of programming experience, and has completed work for notable organizations like:

• Tata Consultancy Services
• IRIEEN (Indian Railway Institute of Electrical Engineering)
• Southern Railway

He spends his free time tinkering in Java and usually gets away with posing as a Java guru.

You can read some articles by him:

• A Recipe for Cookie Management
  JavaWorld.Com April 2002
  http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-04-2002/jw-0426-cookie.html
   
• The Web at Your (Machine's) Service
  JavaWorld.Com September 2001
  http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-09-2001/jw-0928-smsservice.html
   
• Deliver Cellular Messages with SMS
  JavaWorld.Com March 2001
  http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2001/jw-0330-sms.html
   
• Exceptions in Java: Nothing Exceptional about Them
  JavaWorld.Com August 2000
  http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-08-2000/jw-0818-exceptions.html