How do I force a JDialog to appear on top of all windows on my screen?

My CAD software at work has a Java API that I've wrote an app for. I have to display everything in a modal JDialog so that it doesn't conflict with the CAD software. The one problem is when my CAD software launches the dialog it appears behind the CAD window. How can I force the dialog window to be on top of every window on the screen? toFront() doesn't work.
For whatever reason the dialog window is opening unselected while my CAD screen is still the active window in Windows. Is there a way to have a Java app select which window is active in a Windows session? Thanks.

Turns out this a quirk of the CAD software's Java API. I found it by chance in the 500+ page User's Guide. They suggest the work around of hitting Alt-Tab to select the dialog. So I'm not sure if theress a property that I can assign to the dialog to make it appear on top. The line I have is:
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(new JFrame(), nameOfModels, "Models in Session", JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE);The parent JFrame is created only for when the dialog is opened. I can't create a bonafide parent JFrame for the Java API forbids multiple threads. I'm going to continue searching for some type of workaround. One possibility is to have a keyStroke make the Alt-Tab however this may be problematic. Thanks for the response.

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