diff --git a/accelerator.yaml b/accelerator.yaml
index a7eba54d..3cf1a9c9 100644
--- a/accelerator.yaml
+++ b/accelerator.yaml
@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
 accelerator:
-  displayName: Tanzu Java Web App
-  description: A sample Spring Boot web application built with Tanzu supply-chain
+  displayName: Tanzu Java Spring Api Provider (40)
+  description: A sample Spring Boot web application built with Tanzu supply-chain that uses sprindocs to generate an openAPI document.
   iconUrl: https://github.com/sample-accelerators/icons/raw/master/icon-boot.png
   tags:
   - java
   - spring
   - web
   - tanzu
+  - openAPI
+  - api
 
   options:
   - name: repositoryPrefix
@@ -14,11 +16,16 @@ accelerator:
     label: Prefix for the container image repository
     defaultValue: dev.local
     required: true
+  - name: exposeOpenAPIEndpoint
+    label: Expose OpenAPI endpoint?
+    display: true
+    dataType: boolean
+    defaultValue: false
 
 engine:
   merge:
   - include: [ "**/*" ]
-    exclude: [ "config/*.yaml", "Tiltfile", "README.md", "grype.yaml", "catalog/*.yaml", ".github/workflows/**" ]
+    exclude: [ "config/*.yaml", "Tiltfile", "README.md", "grype.yaml", "catalog/*.yaml", ".github/workflows/**", "pom.xml" ]
   - include: [ "config/*.yaml", "Tiltfile" ]
     chain:
     - type: ReplaceText
@@ -43,3 +50,15 @@ engine:
         with: "#artifactId"
     - type: RewritePath
       rewriteTo: "#filename"
+  - include: [ "pom.xml" ]
+    chain:
+      - type: ReplaceText
+        condition: "#exposeOpenAPIEndpoint"
+        substitutions:
+          - text: <!-- OPEN API DEPENDENCY PLACEHOLDER -->
+            with: "'<dependency>\n			<groupId>org.springdoc</groupId>\n			<artifactId>springdoc-openapi-ui</artifactId>\n			<version>1.6.9</version>\n		</dependency>'"
+      - type: ReplaceText
+        condition: "!#exposeOpenAPIEndpoint"
+        substitutions:
+          - text: <!-- OPEN API DEPENDENCY PLACEHOLDER -->
+            with: "''"
diff --git a/config/workload.yaml b/config/workload.yaml
index 218e13d7..5ee1553f 100644
--- a/config/workload.yaml
+++ b/config/workload.yaml
@@ -5,11 +5,21 @@ metadata:
   labels:
     apps.tanzu.vmware.com/workload-type: web
     app.kubernetes.io/part-of: tanzu-java-web-app
+    app.tanzu.vmware.com/register-api: "true"
+    apps.tanzu.vmware.com/has-tests: "true"
+    apis.apps.tanzu.vmware.com/register-api: "true"
 spec:
   params:
   - name: annotations
     value:
       autoscaling.knative.dev/minScale: "1"
+  - name: api_descriptor
+    value:
+      type: openapi
+      location:
+        path: "/v3/api-docs"
+      owner: team-petclinic
+      description: "A set of API endpoints to manage the resources within the petclinic app."
   source:
     git:
       url: https://github.com/sample-accelerators/tanzu-java-web-app
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 2f9fff47..fe094192 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@
 			<optional>true</optional>
 		</dependency>
 
+		<!-- OPEN API DEPENDENCY PLACEHOLDER -->
+
 	</dependencies>
 
 	<build>
diff --git a/src/main/resources/application.yml b/src/main/resources/application.yml
index 03ce5d08..d614a3a5 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/application.yml
+++ b/src/main/resources/application.yml
@@ -8,4 +8,5 @@ management:
         include: "*"  
   endpoint:
     health:
-      show-details: always
\ No newline at end of file
+      show-details: always
+