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Should we all move to NetBeans Visual Web Pack now from Java Studio Creator?

It depends on what you need to be doing as a developer.

Java Studio Creator is meant for developers that need to develop a GUI on top of existing databases, web services, EJB, etc. It does not allow you to create Web Services, or EJB's, or even Databases for that matter (yes I know there are ways to do it in Creator but it's not designed to create databases). Java Studio Creator provides almost all of the plumbing hooked up for you. App Server, Database software, etc. are already included and installed with the product.

Now, Visual Web Pack has been released into the Netbeans community to introduce the folks that are actually doing the creation of those Web Services, EJBs, etc. to the same ease of building JSF based GUI's for those projects.

There are a lot of things that can not be done in VWP, at this time, that can be done in Creator today.

    • Portlet development isn't supported
    • Drag and Drop of Web Services binding is not supported
    • Drag and Drop of EJB binding is not supported
    • There is not a bundled database or Application Server
    • Some of the JSC 2.1 projects will load in VWP, however you will be required to hook up all of the plumbing that was already there autoamtically, before.

Visual Web Pack will continue to mature as time goes on. All new things that come to VWP will eventually also become available in Java Studio Creator and vice-versa.

The plan is to eventually make the two products feature compatible and provide a migration path for those whose projects outgrow Java Studio Creator, however we are not planning to end the development of Java Studio Creator. They have different developer audiences and we recognize those differences and want to provide quality tools to each of them.
See http://www.netbeans.org/kb/55/vwp-migration.html to see how to import a Java Studio Creator 2 Project in NetBeans Visual Web Pack 5.5.

For a history of how Sun Java Studio Creator evolves into Visual Web in NetBeans, see Winston Prakash's Weblog. The blog has been expanded to an article Using Sun Java Studio Creator 2 IDE or Visual Web Pack for NetBeans 5.5, and provides the starting point for the Creator Forum topic Sun Java Studio Creator or Visual Web Pack?.