Rainy Night in Salzburg

In my upcoming modernised revision of The Sound Of Music, a young masters student, Maria, is sent to the household of the ruthless project manager, Georg vonTrapp, to tutor computer science to his seven unruly children. Von Trapp's stubborn adherence to outmoded SDLC principles is gradually eroded by the charm and persuasive sense of Maria, who teaches everyone the power of Object-Orientated Design Patterns, and helps them build a thriving family development start-up. When a rising foreign software monopoly threatens a take-over, Maria helps the Von Trapps in a daring re-location to entrepreneur-friendly Switzerland.

Here's a spoiler:

Private constructors and unchecked exceptions
Linked List traversal in different directions
Well-balanced Tree Maps all indexed with Strings
These are a few of my favourite things

Synchronized methods and JMS clients
Pattern adoption and broad-based compliance
The polymorphism an interface brings
These are a few of my favourite things

Threadsafe collections and serialization
Bean introspection and encapsulation
Wireless connections responding to pings
These are a few of my favourite things

When the build breaks
When the client rings
When they want a JAD
I simply remember my favourite things
And then I don't feel so bad