Running jsdoctk plugin without changing your project pom. Sometimes I want to run jsdoc for a project just so that I can get some quick information on the used javascripts, but I don't want to stick another dependency in the pom of the project. Because I kept running into this when working only for a single short task on big projects I went and figured out how to configure maven to include jsdoctk-plugin in its' list of 'known plugins'.
When you know what to do, it turns out to be really simple. All you have to do is add a few lines of xml to your 'settings.xml' which can be found in your 'user-directory'. On unix-like machines this would be at '~/.m2/settings.xml'.
Add the following xml:
 {{{