Disable Jenkins Job from Another Job

Question

Is there a way in Jenkins (Hudson) to disable a job from another job?

Basically we have a build environment that does the standard building/testing. We also use the

Answer 1

Recent version of Jenkins (2 and over) change the method name.
Just replace disable() with setDisabled(boolean)

Found that this worked for me:
Jenkins.instance.getItem("jobname").setDisabled(false)