/**
     * Defines external profiles that may be activated for the given model.
     * Those are external profiles usually defined in {@link org.apache.maven.api.settings.Settings#getProfiles()}.
     */
    @Nonnull
    Collection<Profile> getProfiles();

    /**
     * List of profile ids that have been explicitly activated by the user.
     */
    @Nonnull
    List<String> getActiveProfileIds();

    /**

    public java.util.Map<String, Profile> getProfilesAsMap() {
        if (profileMap == null) {
            profileMap = new java.util.LinkedHashMap<String, Profile>();
            if (getProfiles() != null) {
                for (Profile profile : getProfiles()) {
                    profileMap.put(profile.getId(), profile);
                }
            }
        }
        return profileMap;
    }