Title: A shallow scattered attempt
Product review: I can only assume that Mr. Cleaveland was attempting to woo the legions of Web site developers into writing program generators (PG) with this book. The book centers around a pointless example of how to generate pop-up web pages which call each other when their respective buttons are pressed.Out of the 13 chapters, 3 are worth mentioning. Chapters 4, 6, and 7 deal with what to consider when writing a PG and how to make it flexible and Mr. Cleveland does bring some worthwhile points to the table. Throughout the other chapters, trivial code snippets are given of how to write the code (in Java, DOM, and XSLT) to generate the pages, however, because the examples are so simplistic any one who knows these languages would know how to write them anyway.In the future, I would strongly recommend the following:1. Give examples that people will actually want to use2. Give examples that highlight your points3. Get rid of chapters 2 and 3 (domain analysis), they are useless.
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