Keeping windows in front

I want to be able to force windows like JOptionPanes, JFileChoosers, etc. to be place in front of the main window of my program. The problem is that the class that calls the 'show' methord of the new windows is not necessarily a Component object. So when I call methords like ShowMessageDialog, I can only use null as the paramenter value for the Component.

Try this:
Frame main = null;
Frame[] instantiated = Frame.getFrames();
for(int i=0;i < instantiated.length && main==null;i++) {
// you need to identify your main frame somehow,
// maybe through the caption or the class
if(f.getCaption().equals("My Main Window")) {
main = f[i];
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(main, "A message");
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