a little joy 
Afterall this day worked out quite fine: After a busy weekend with lots of walking, bbq and a chat with
suzie, I had to face the joy of work today. All my programming efforts succeeded; I got the logging and exception handling as I wanted and finally we found the problem why all the java class files missed their debug info - so the weblogic ejbs can now be debugged remotely - I am able to do some bad tests to them now :)