How to get the jobname from jenkins

Question

Is there a way to get the jobname for the current build in jenkins and pass it as a parameter to an ant build script?

Answer 1

Jenkins sets some environment variables such as JOB_NAME (see here) for more details on the variables set.

You can then access these in ant via ${env.JOB_NAME}.

Edit: There's also a little howto for environment variables on the same page here.