Create jobs and execute them in jenkins using REST

Question

I am trying to create a WCF REST client that will communicate to Jenkins and create a job from an XML file and then build the job. My understanding is that you can do that with

Answer 1

To create a job:

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type:application/xml" -d "" -u username: API_Token http://JENKINS_HOST/createItem?name=AA_TEST_JOB2

To build a job:

curl -X POST -u username:API_TOKEN http://JENKINS_HOST/job/MY_JOB_NAME/build