xml.namespace="http://maven.apache.org/LIFECYCLE/${version}"
  xml.schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/xsd/lifecycle-${version}.xsd">
  <id>lifecycle</id>
  <name>Lifecycle</name>
  <description>
    Configuration of custom lifecycle mappings for the plugin, as generally stored in
    {@code META-INF/maven/lifecycle.xml} in a plugin's jar artifact.
  </description>
  <classes>

    }

    public Lifecycle(
            org.apache.maven.api.services.LifecycleRegistry registry, org.apache.maven.api.Lifecycle lifecycle) {
        this.lifecycle = lifecycle;
        this.id = lifecycle.id();
        this.phases = registry.computePhases(lifecycle);
        this.defaultPhases = getDefaultPhases(lifecycle);
    }

    // <lifecycle>
    //   <id>clean</id>
    //   <phases>

import org.apache.maven.api.model.Plugin;

/**
 * Lifecycle definition
 *
 * @since 4.0.0
 */
@Experimental
@Immutable
public interface Lifecycle extends ExtensibleEnum {

    String CLEAN = "clean";

    String DEFAULT = "default";

    String SITE = "site";

    String WRAPPER = "wrapper";

    /**
     * Name or identifier of this lifecycle.
     *

 * under the License.
 */
package org.apache.maven.lifecycle.mapping;

import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
import java.util.Map;

/**
 * Lifecycle definition for a packaging (multiple packagings share the same lifecycle id = usually "default").
 */
public class Lifecycle {
    /**
     * Field id
     */
    private String id;

    /**

We have a lifecycle mapping for the packaging of *jar* below. You see that for this packaging we have a *default* lifecycle and a list of phases where each phase is a comma separated list of goals to run and they are in the form groupId:artifactId:version.

<configuration>
  <lifecycles>
    <lifecycle>
      <id>default</id>
      <phases>
        <process-resources>org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin:resources</process-resources>

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.DefaultArtifactHandl test jar java true org.apache.maven.lifecycle.mapping.LifecycleMapping test org.apache.maven.lifecycle.mapping.DefaultLifecycleMapp default org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-install-plugin:install org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-deploy-plugin:deploy META-INF/maven/org.apache.maven.core.test/test-lifecycle-and-artifactHandler/pom.xml 4.0.0 org.apache.maven.core.test test-lifecycle-and-artifactHandler jar 1 test-lifecycle-and-artifactHandler maven-assembly-plugin 2.2-beta-2-SNAPSHOT...

  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.core.test</groupId>
  <artifactId>test-lifecycle-and-artifactHandler</artifactId>
  <packaging>jar</packaging>
  <version>1</version>
  <name>test-lifecycle-and-artifactHandler</name>

  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>

.DefaultArtifactHandl test jar java true org.apache.maven.lifecycle.mapping.LifecycleMapping test org.apache.maven.lifecycle.mapping.DefaultLifecycleMapp default org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-install-plugin:install org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-deploy-plugin:deploy META-INF/maven/org.apache.maven.core.test/test-lifecycle-and-artifactHandler/pom.xml 4.0.0 org.apache.maven.core.test test-lifecycle-and-artifactHandler jar 1 test-lifecycle-and-artifactHandler maven-assembly-plugin 2.2-beta-2-SNAPSHOT...

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