title: How do I get the workbench window to open a modal dialog in an Eclipse based project?
body: <p>In order to open a modal dialog, you need to pass a parent window, and pass the necessary flags for the dialog to be modal of course.</p>
  
  <p>Depending on where you are in the eclipse infrastructure, finding this parent window is not always easy.</p>
  
  <p>How can the parent window be accessed?</p>