Maven- No plugin found for prefix 'spring-boot' in the current project and in the plugin groups

Question

I am trying to build a springboot project I built with Spring Tools Suite. I get the following error when I execute $mvn spring-boot:run

Downloading: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/codehaus/mojo/maven-metadata.xml Downloading: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-metadata.xml Downloaded: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-metadata.xml (13 KB at 14.0 KB/sec) Downloaded: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/codehaus/mojo/maven-metadata.xml (20 KB at 21.8 KB/sec) [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] BUILD FAILURE [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 2.032 s [INFO] Finished at: 2015-06-15T17:46:50-04:00 [INFO] Final Memory: 11M/123M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] No plugin found for prefix 'spring-boot' in the current project and in the plugin groups [org.apache.maven.plugins, org.codehaus.mojo] available from the repositories [local (/Users/admin/.m2/repository), central (https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2)] -> [Help 1] [ERROR]  [ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch. [ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging. [ERROR]  [ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles: [ERROR] [Help 1]     http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/NoPluginFoundForPrefixException` 

Heres my pom.xml plugin

    <build>     <plugins>         <plugin>             <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>             <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>             <configuration>                 <arguments>                     <argument>--spring.profiles.active=dev</argument>                 </arguments>             </configuration>         </plugin>     </plugins> </build> 

I tried the jhipster plugin above and no change in the error.

Answer 1

If you are running the

mvn spring-boot:run 

from the command line, make sure you are in the directory that contains the pom.xml file. Otherwise, you will run into the No plugin found for prefix 'spring-boot' in the current project and in the plugin groups error.

Answer 2

If you are using Spring Boot for application, forgetting to add

<parent>     <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>     <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>     <version>1.2.7.RELEASE</version>  </parent> 

can cause this issue, as well as missing these lines

<repositories>     <repository>         <id>spring-releases</id>         <url>https://repo.spring.io/libs-release</url>     </repository> </repositories> <pluginRepositories>     <pluginRepository>         <id>spring-releases</id>         <url>https://repo.spring.io/libs-release</url>     </pluginRepository> </pluginRepositories>