How to manually invoke actionPerformed in Java?

The method actionPerformed of class ActionListener is invoked when we click on a (let say) JButton. I want to run this method manually in a program. Is it possible?
Here is an example:

actionlistener
icu
java
jbutton
listener
orm
perf

button.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
    @Override
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
        // do something
    }  
});

This actionPerformed is invoked when I click on button. Is there another way to call it manually using a line(s) of code in my program?

>Solution :

You can:

Call .doClick() on the button
Simply call actionPerformed(null) on the method … difficult if the method is in an anonymous class
Or have the listener itself call a method that the main program can call (my preferred way)