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

private static void onTop(Shell shell) {
        int s = -1;
        Shell[] shells = display.getShells();
        for (int i = 0; i < shells.length; ++i) {
            if (!shells[i].equals(shell)) {
                shells[i].setEnabled(false);
                shells[i].update();
            } else {
                s = i;
            }
        }
        while (!shell.isDisposed()) {
            if (!display.readAndDispatch())
                display.sleep();
        }
        for (int i = 0; i < shells.length; ++i) {
            if (i != s) {
                shells[i].setEnabled(true);
                shells[i].update();
            }
        }
    }