Through the Extension Manager section, you can add more types to Aspire. It is possible to extend the types to the following components categories:

• Connectors: Available for Seeds, Connector Instances, Credentials, and Connections.
• Applications: Available on Workflows, under the 'Applications' category.
• Publishers: Available on Workflows, under the 'Publishers' category.

Configurations

1. On the Aspire Admin UI, go to the tools tab (expand the tab).
2. Go to the Extension Manager tab.
3. Click on “new button”.
4. Type name:  Description to the new extension. This description will appear on the type of selector on the other pages.
   
5. Extension type: Choose the category for new extension.
6. Maven coordinates: Maven coordinates corresponding to the new extension type. The maven coordinates must not include the version, since it should be defined in the Aspire settings. For example, the publisher extension is com.accenture.aspire:aspire-saga-entity-publisher-source.

After creating the new extension type, you can click on any of these to see the list of installed extensions of the corresponding type.

How To Use

Once time the extension was created, you can use it in Workflow section in Aspire.

1. To search the new extension, go to Workflow tab.
2. Open the specify workflow to add the new component. After that, go to search panel (right part).
3. Search by the name that was added in Extension Manager (e.g. Saga Publisher) or search by type (e.g. Publisher). 
4. Drag the component and configure it.