ADTF offers a developer SDK with a well defined API to enable programers to extend the functionality of ADTF by writing their own components. A component in the sense of ADTF is either an ADTF

• Service
• Filter
• Streaming Source
• Streaming Sink

Each of them can be used inside the ADTF Configuration Editor and represent the building blocks of arbitrary complex data flow configurations. These components exist inside the compiled C++ binaries which are called ADTF Plugins and have the file suffix *.adtfplugin.

To make these plugins available to a broader audience of ADTF users, plugins can be uploaded to the Digitalwerk Store. All you have to do is create a ZIP file with a special folder structure. If you want to learn how to write ADTF Plugins start here: ADTF3 Guides.