work continued 
My dizzy feeling seems to go away, so I was a little bit more productive than the rest of the week. I installed
eclipse 2.1 and I really appreciate the key-settings feature. As I am so used to
visual age for java, I always press CTRL + W before saving which resulted in code-formatting and I finally added this shortcut to eclipse now. I also get into some BEA WLS deployment descriptors and after my first deployment, the server started throwing
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError… :)
As this site is hit by google searchs for 'eclipse out of memory error', I want to add that the eclipse start parameters -vmargs -Xmx256M might help on that issue
eclipse 
It took me more than 2 hours to download the
eclipse 2.1 release… boy, it seems, the people like that IDE.