Making the window blink

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I'm working on a Messenger-client-application. The gui is pure swing. I've got two questions that I can't seem to find answers for in the API.
1) When a message arrives I want to notify the user either maximizing or even better making the minimized window blink. How do you start the blinking? is it some kind of window-event?
2) I'm also using scrollpanes. How do I set the scrollpane to always display the buttom part of it's contents? This way I won't have to scroll down every time a message is appended to my JTextArea-outputarea.

Yeah, I figured I should probably post my findings even though it's to a question that's old. Hadn't seen anyone post an workaround that functioned at all.
I will note that with some digging in Process Viewer, it seems that a second copy of the iTunes.exe file is launched as a sub-process, performing some intensive operation, then quitting. It's this process that's grabbing attention. I'm not sure what it's doing, but it's probably related to library management, or some such. It seems to have a distinctive pattern - during "work", it launches about once every 20-30 seconds, processes for about 5 seconds with heavy CPU load, then quits. The launching of this process apparently grabs focus. It sounds like something in the launch code of iTunes grabs focus even though it will end up doing background work.

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