Collection<Link> links();

        /**
         * {@return the list of sub-phases}
         */
        @Nonnull
        List<Phase> phases();

        @Nonnull
        Stream<Phase> allPhases();
    }

    /**
     * A phase alias, mostly used to support the Maven 3 phases which are mapped
     * to dynamic phases in Maven 4.
     */
    interface Alias {
        String v3Phase();

     */
    public java.util.List<Phase> getPhases() {
        if (this.phases == null) {
            this.phases = new java.util.ArrayList<Phase>();
        }

        return this.phases;
    } // -- java.util.List<Phase> getPhases()

    /**
     * Method removePhase.
     *
     * @param phase a phase object.
     */
    public void removePhase(Phase phase) {
        getPhases().remove(phase);

        this.id = lifecycle.id();
        this.phases = registry.computePhases(lifecycle).stream()
                .flatMap(p -> Stream.of(BEFORE + p, p, AFTER + p))
                .toList();
        this.defaultPhases = getDefaultPhases(lifecycle);
    }

    // <lifecycle>
    //   <id>clean</id>
    //   <phases>
    //     <phase>pre-clean</phase>
    //     <phase>clean</phase>
    //     <phase>post-clean</phase>

    }

    static Lifecycle.Phase phase(String name, Lifecycle.Link link1, Lifecycle.Link link2, Lifecycle.Phase... phases) {
        return new DefaultPhase(name, Collections.emptyList(), asList(link1, link2), asList(phases));
    }

    static Lifecycle.Phase phase(
            String name, Lifecycle.Link link1, Lifecycle.Link link2, Lifecycle.Link link3, Lifecycle.Phase... phases) {

import static org.apache.maven.api.Lifecycle.Phase.RESOURCES;
import static org.apache.maven.api.Lifecycle.Phase.SOURCES;
import static org.apache.maven.api.Lifecycle.Phase.TEST;
import static org.apache.maven.api.Lifecycle.Phase.TEST_COMPILE;
import static org.apache.maven.api.Lifecycle.Phase.TEST_RESOURCES;
import static org.apache.maven.api.Lifecycle.Phase.TEST_SOURCES;
import static org.apache.maven.api.Lifecycle.Phase.UNIT_TEST;

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>

                    Deque<String> phases = getLifecycles(project);
                    if (!Objects.equals(phase, phases.peekLast())) {
                        phases.addLast(phase);
                        if ("clean".equals(phase)) {
                            cleanProjectLocalRepository(project);
                        }
                    }
                }
                break;
            case ProjectSucceeded:

            O options = parseArgs("maven.config", args);
            if (options.goals().isPresent()) {
                // This file can only contain options, not args (goals or phases)
                throw new ParserException("Unrecognized maven.config file entries: "
                        + options.goals().get());
            }
            return options;
        }
    }

    }

    /**
     * Get lifecycle based on phase
     *
     * @param phase
     * @return
     */
    public Lifecycle get(String phase) {
        return getPhaseToLifecycleMap().get(phase);
    }

    /**
     * We use this to map all phases to the lifecycle that contains it. This is used so that a user can specify the
     * phase they want to execute and we can easily determine what lifecycle we need to run.

     */
    @Nonnull
    Optional<Boolean> ignoreTransitiveRepositories();

    /**
     * Returns the list of goals and phases to execute.
     *
     * @return an {@link Optional} containing the list of goals and phases to execute, or empty if not specified
     */
    @Nonnull
    Optional<List<String>> goals();

    /**