eXo, a company that offers what it calls development-as-a-service, or a cloud based IDE, announced today that Cloud Foundry is now a part of the list of PaaS services it supports. Existing ones include  CloudBees, Heroku and Red Hat OpenShift, the Linux distributor’s spin on open source PaaS.  The company says it offers the first service of its kind that supports Java and Java Spring development.

eXo lets developers build applications written in Java, Spring, PHP, Ruby and other languages online, and access their code from a browser, rather than having to store it on their local network.  Further, eXo’s partnership with the four PaaS providers above, a number expected to grow, means devs can upload their apps directly from the web-based IDE.

“Cloud IDE makes it possible for developers to collaborate on building Java applications in the cloud, apps that they can deploy directly to Cloud Foundry in minutes,” said Benjamin Mestrallet, founder and CEO of eXo. “The code now lives in the cloud, accessible from virtually anywhere with a browser and Internet access—so creating an app and moving it into Cloud Foundry is now very easy.”

eXo is the latest company that teamed-up with VMware to offer Cloud Foundry support, following a long string of several others.  The virtualization giant is boosting its offering by making a lot of partnerships.

A week ago, VMware announced it has teamed-up with Dell, Canonical, enStratus and Opscode.  This is will probably turn out to be a good move in the long run, considering how the four round-out Foundry: Dell will offer its Crowbar bare metal installer, Canonical will ship Cloud Foundry tools with the next version of Ubuntu  and EnStratus’s virtual datacenters now support it. Opscode in turn will provide automated scripts based on Chef.