Is it possible to bring JFrame to front but NOT focus?

I recently ran into the same problem, and the tentative solution has been:

JFrame frame = ...;
frame.setExtendedState(JFrame.NORMAL);
frame.setAlwaysOnTop(true);
frame.requestFocus();
frame.setAlwaysOnTop(false);

This may work:

foo.setFocusableWindowState(false);

As of Java 1.7 you can call

frame.setAutoRequestFocus(false);

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