Trigger a Jenkins Build Programmatically using Java

As we all know Jenkins is a popular CI Tools and can be integrated with almost all the other popular testing and DevOps tool.

In this article, we will learn how we can run our Jenkins job from JAVA Code.

We need to follow the below steps to run Jenkins Job from JAVA Code.

1)   Login into Jenkins with your admin user id/password and click on id present on the top right of the screen.

2)   Click on Configure then click on Add New Token option inside API Token.

3)   Click on Generate, One unique token id will be generated for your id. Copy this token id for your reference.

4)   Now either create or open existing Jenkins job which we want to execute through our code.

5)   Click on Trigger build remotely inside Build Triggers and provide the token id generated in step 2.

6)   Click on Apply and save the Jenkins Job.

7)   Now we need to use the below code.

Please Note in URL we first need to provide the exact path of Jenkins job followed by build?token=your token id.

 Now once we execute the above java code, we would be able to see that Jenkin's job is executed successfully.

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