Making a Message Box always on top

Hi all,
I want a solution so that the message box I show on the screen should remain always on top of all the windows. Just like the common windows operating system modal dialog boxes so that the user cannot proceed unless and untill he closes the message box.
I have tried with the JDialog by calling the method
setModal(true);
but unable to fix it.
Thanx in advance,
With regards
Yuvraj
Mumbai.

If you instanciate your JDialog with the parent Frame, it will be always on top of it.
JFrame fra = new JFrame();
fra.setVisible(true);
JDialog dia = new JDialog(fra);
dia.setModal(true);
dia.setVisible(true);
Happy programming !

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