I started greenfoot not to long ago and now am beining to doubt the strengh of this development tool. is it possible to create professional work from greenfoot or is greenfoot just a stepping stone towards more complex development tools like UDK?
Greenfoot is actually just meant to be a stepping stone. However, you can do a lot more with it than I think the developers meant. Your games can look quite good, just look at Nightmare: Emergence, Chicken, or my favorite, RockSmash. It just depends on how much work you want to put into your game. Most of the people on here are just using Greenfoot as a learning tool. They don't intend to sell or distribute their games.