http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/local/3449853.htm As far as I know, Bluestone's not free, and even if it was, I'm not aware of any stellar features that would make it good to adopt at this stage in its life. Any Bluestone fans out there who know otherwise, please tell me.
If you're looking specifically for free
J2EE, two I know of are JOnAS (
http://www.objectweb.org) and
JBoss (
http://www.jboss.org). JOnAS is entirely free and claims better performance, but JBoss has been better integrated with JSP/Servlet containers such as
Tomcat. You do have to pay if you want up-to-date manuals, however.
There are other systems as well. Orion is popular, though you have to pay for commercial use, if I remember correctly.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.