Github user neykov commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-brooklyn/pull/729#issuecomment-118001096
The user-visible term for catalog item is `id`. This is what the user sets
in the catalog spec. The technical term is `symbolicName` with `type` kept for
backwards compatibility with existing clients (it was removed initially but we
had to put it back in).
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