In a move that takes SpringSource further into the cloud computing environment, SpringSource announced at its annual developer conference in Florida that it will be working with VMware to make available VMware images of its software.

“The partnership between SpringSource and VMware brings two of the largest enterprise Java solutions, Spring and Apache Tomcat, together with the value that virtualization enables when developing, testing, staging or running Java applications, whether on the desktop, or in the data center,” said SpringSource CEO Rod Johnson (pictured).