I\'m trying to execute grunt tasks from within maven without needing to install Node.js or anything. This is because I wan\'t my artifact to be packaged by Jenkins and I can\'t
If the problem is installing NodeJS on the Jenkins machine then you can use the NodeJS Jenkins plugin.
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/NodeJS+Plugin
We're not using it with Maven (yet) but we've got grunt running.