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

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.

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>

If you don't want to use

<parent>
  <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
  <version>(...)</version>
</parent>

as a parent POM, you may use the

mvn org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-maven-plugin:run

command instead.