Contents

All types live in network.ike.support.enums.

• ConstantBackedEnum — pairs each enum constant with a matched public static final String NAME_* mirror and verifies the one-to-one correspondence at class-load. Java requires annotation element values to be constant expressions, which an enum reference is not; the mirror constant is. This lets an enum-backed name drive a @Mojo(name = Goal.NAME_X) annotation while the enum stays the single source of truth.
• EnumDefinition — a ConstantBackedEnum that also carries a human-readable term and its one-sentence definition: a controlled-vocabulary entry expressed as an enum constant.
• ReleasePolicy — the release-cascade policy ladder (notify → verify → propose → integrate → release), the first EnumDefinition.

Foundation position

ike-java-support sits just below ike-base-parent in the build-and-release dependency chain. It must resolve above every project that registers ike-version-management-extension (which depends on it), so it lives in its own repository, parented directly to ike-base-parent — never buried in a Tier-1 application repo where a build-extension dependency would close a release-graph cycle.

ike-base-parent          (Tier 0 parent inheritance)
        |
        v
ike-java-support         (this artifact)
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        v
ike-version-management-extension
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        v
all consumer builds

Coordinates

<dependency>
    <groupId>network.ike</groupId>
    <artifactId>ike-java-support</artifactId>
    <version>1</version>
</dependency>

Available from Maven Central.

Tracking

• IKE-Network/ike-issues#498^[2] — Release Policy Layer, the epic that established this artifact.