How do you force a java swt program to “move itself to the foreground”?

Question

Currently with swt, I sometimes want a program to arbitrarily come to the foreground (like an alarm clock might).

Typically the following works (jruby):

Answer 1

This worked for me on Windows 7 and Ubuntu:

private void bringToFront(final Shell shell) {
    shell.getDisplay().asyncExec(new Runnable() {
        public void run() {
            shell.forceActive();
        }
    });
}