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

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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. java spring maven spring-mvc shareimprove this question asked Jun 15 '15 at 22:14 Derek 78116

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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> shareimprove this answer edited Jun 29 '16 at 11:57 SaviNuclear 570214 answered Nov 9 '15 at 5:04 Abhijeet 2,92013046

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up vote29down vote	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. shareimprove this answer answered Jul 4 '16 at 20:30 Voicu 6,25542541
	Oh come on, this is so silly...of course, I choked on it :) – Koshinae Aug 17 '16 at 10:20 Thanks - i was being stupid. This was my solution. – Simon Apr 2 at 18:05 add a comment

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You might want to add the following to your pom and try compiling <repositories> <repository> <id>spring-snapshots</id> <url>http://repo.spring.io/libs-snapshot</url> <snapshots> <enabled>true</enabled> </snapshots> </repository> </repositories> <pluginRepositories> <pluginRepository> <id>spring-snapshots</id> <url>http://repo.spring.io/libs-snapshot</url> <snapshots> <enabled>true</enabled> </snapshots> </pluginRepository> </pluginRepositories> shareimprove this answer answered Jun 16 '15 at 2:27 Johnson Abraham 618411

1   Thanks those repos worked! – Derek Jun 16 '15 at 13:40 3   Why would this be happening? I am on a corporate network that does not allow accessing external repos, our internal mirror seems to have the right JARs but what would have made them bad? – Will Buck Jun 22 '15 at 13:32 add a comment

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Adding spring-boot-maven-plugin in the build resolved it in my case <build> <finalName>mysample-web</finalName> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>springloaded</artifactId> <version>1.2.1.RELEASE</version> </dependency> </dependencies> </plugin> </plugins> </build> shareimprove this answer answered Jun 2 '16 at 15:52 Venkat 6011618

This was my situation. It was working before, then I commented that part ( thinking of commenting something else ) and all of the sudden my app stop working. – OscarRyz Apr 5 at 20:44 add a comment

up vote-1down vote	In my case, my maven variable environment was M2_HOME, so ive changed to MAVEN_HOME and worked. Tnx. shareimprove this answer answered Jul 9 at 21:29 vfranca9 1
	Welcome to Stack Overflow, @vfranca9. Perhaps some explanation would make your answer more clear. By, "in my case" do you mean that you were getting the same error message in response to the same command?– Degan Jul 9 at 22:03 add a comment