Drawing Over Full Screen Applications

Hi,
I am trying to create an application that will flash vocab at me while I am gaming, in the hope that I may learn it with minimal effort...
As I play guild wars a lot, I was wondering whether there would be a way for the program to display its output over guild-wars, without guild wars losing the focus, similar to the way it is done in the xfire chat client.
Currently the output consists of two JLabels in a JWindow.
I would post code, but as my problem is more an abstract one I doubt that would be to any avail.
I have read about drawing directly to screen - active rendering etc, and am not sure whether any of this would be applicable.
Thanks in advance for any help.

If the other app is a full-screen exclusive application, there's basically no way.
Even if not, you can not make a truly transparent window in Java (yet), so you can't place it on top of another app and make the latter visible and accessible to events.
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