diff --git a/app/app.go b/app/app.go
index 583eb369..e7178279 100644
--- a/app/app.go
+++ b/app/app.go
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package app
 import (
 	"fmt"
 	"path"
+	"regexp"
 	"runtime/debug"
 	"strings"
 
@@ -18,12 +19,15 @@ import (
 
 type Option func(*App) error
 
+var flogoImportPattern = regexp.MustCompile(`^(([^ ]*)[ ]+)?([^@:]*)@?([^:]*)?:?(.*)?$`) // extract import path even if there is an alias and/or a version
+
 func New(config *Config, runner action.Runner, options ...Option) (*App, error) {
 
 	app := &App{stopOnError: true, name: config.Name, version: config.Version}
 
 	for _, anImport := range config.Imports {
-		registerImport(anImport)
+		matches := flogoImportPattern.FindStringSubmatch(anImport)
+		registerImport(matches[1] + matches[3] + matches[5]) // alias + module path + relative import path
 	}
 
 	properties := make(map[string]interface{}, len(config.Properties))
diff --git a/examples/alt/engine/flogo.json b/examples/alt/engine/flogo.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e8830750
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/alt/engine/flogo.json
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+{
+  "name": "_APP_NAME_",
+  "type": "flogo:app",
+  "version": "0.0.1",
+  "description": "My flogo application description",
+  "appModel": "1.0.0",
+  "imports": [
+    "github.com/project-flogo/contrib@latest:/activity/log",
+    "github.com/project-flogo/contrib@latest:/trigger/rest",
+    "github.com/project-flogo/flow@latest"
+  ],
+  "triggers": [
+    {
+      "id": "my_rest_trigger",
+      "type": "rest",
+      "settings": {
+        "port": "8888"
+      },
+      "handlers": [
+        {
+          "settings": {
+            "method": "GET",
+            "path": "/test/:val"
+          },
+          "actions": [
+            {
+              "type": "flow",
+              "settings": {
+                "flowURI": "res://flow:simple_flow"
+              },
+              "input": {
+                "in": "=$.pathParams.val"
+              }
+	    }
+	  ]
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  ],
+  "resources": [
+    {
+      "id": "flow:simple_flow",
+      "data": {
+        "name": "simple_flow",
+        "metadata": {
+          "input": [
+            { "name": "in", "type": "string",  "value": "test" }
+          ],
+          "output": [
+            { "name": "out", "type": "string" }
+          ]
+        },
+        "tasks": [
+          {
+            "id": "log",
+            "name": "Log Message",
+            "activity": {
+              "type": "log",
+              "input": {
+                "message": "=$flow.in",
+                "flowInfo": "false",
+                "addToFlow": "false"
+              }
+            }
+          }
+        ],
+        "links": []
+      }
+    }
+  ]
+}