Preventing NewtCanvasAWT from gaining focus?

> Let me start by explaining what I am trying to do, as I think this may be
> helpful in understanding the what I am really trying to achieve with the focus...
>
> I have the canvas rendered in front of a JDesktopPane on which I have swing
> components rendered. So, the canvas completely obscures the swing components.
>  I paint the swing components to buffered images and render the images as
> textures on the canvas in order to allow 3D transformations on the images. Any
> mouse and keyboard events which occur can then be translated and dispatched to
> the swing component to allow interaction with it. This seems to work fine, but
> I am running into a problem with drag and drop operations (this may also occur
> with other operations, but drag and drop is the one of which I am aware). The
> problem is that as the drag begins the NewtCanvasAWT gains the focus so the
> dragged component loses focus. When the translated MOUSE_DRAGGED event is
> delivered, the component regains focus, but the drag action will already be
> terminated.
>
> Is there any way prevent the canvas from gaining the focus?
> Also, I am very open to any other approach to this problem, so any suggestions
> on alternate approaches are welcome.
>