| Interface Summary | 
| DefaultItemPriceCalculationPolicy | This is the default method to calculate the price of an item. | 
| Item | This represents a product or service that has a value. | 
| ItemHome | The home interface for the Item entity bean. | 
| ItemPriceCalculationPolicy | This business policy interface allows you to plug custom methods to implement a price calculation policy | 
 
An Item is anything that can be traded for a value.  It provides three levels of identification, a basic price, and flexible mechanism for setting pricing policy.  Items can also have an independently stored set of qualities that can be used for matching.