How can I bring a process to the foreground?

Question

I work in a manufacturing facility, and I'm working on developing a system to send process related notifications to assembly line workers. Events in an Oracle database trigger the display and use the UTL_TCP package to send a message containing a URL to the target PC. The PC has a small Java program listening for the message, which then opens the URL in Internet Explorer in kiosk mode using:
Runtime.getRuntime().exec("C:\\Program Files\\Internet Explorer\\iexplore.exe -k \"" + request + "\"");where "request" is a variable that contains the URL.
The problem I'm having is that when other applications are running, the IE window often opens behind them. I need to be able to force it to be on top of all other windows. How can I do this? I'm also open to suggestions for other approaches that don't involve using IE.
Thanks,
Shaylan
Edited by: Shaylan on Mar 11, 2013 6:25 AM
Edited by: Shaylan on Mar 11, 2013 6:26 AM

Answer 1

Thanks for the suggestion. That does indeed cause the browser to open on top of other applications, but it still leaves me with a few different issues. I want the displayed page to take up the entire screen, hence launching IE in kiosk mode, which I don't see a way to do through the Desktop class. I also need to be able to close the browser window when I want the message to go away. In the current implementation, I'm doing this by calling the destroy() method of the Process returned from Runtime.exec().