ActionEvent/Setting gui text in an infinite loop

Question

Hi,
I have set up a gui that contains ~ 100 JTextFields and one JTextButton
Pressing the JTextButton on the gui triggers an action event that
1.     establishes a socket connection w/ a server
2.     reads input from the server in an infinite loop
3.     should use the server data to dynamically setText in the various JTextFields found on the gui.
for example, during one iteration of the infinite loop, the data may set the text of JTextField #1 to ?foo? and in a later iteration of the loop, the new data from the input stream may set the text of the same field to something else (e.g. ?bar?). Thus, the gui should show a dynamically changing collection of TextFields after the user presses the JTextButton.
Problem: because of the infinite loop, NONE of the fields is ever updated (see pseudocode below). If I remove the infinite loop and simply have 1 iteration of the block of code within the actionPerformed method, the gui updates properly.
How might I alter the code to a) maintain the server connection, b) continuously read from the input stream and c) have a dynamic update of the textfields w/in the gui?
I've tried adding "this.paint(this.getGraphics());" within the infinite loop and it sort of works, but the updates to the gui are FAR SLOWER than the data that are streaming in from the server.
Thanks for any help!
The code looks something like this
Public class abc extends JFrame
Public abc()
     {initialize components}
instantiate all textfields & button
create various arrays
public void initialize components
     (set up gui using gridbaglayout
     add actionListener to button)
private actionperformed
(establish socket connection w/ server
     read data from server in an infinite loop
     parse data and use information to setText on the gui)
public static void main(blah blah)
     show abc();

Answer 1

have the reading loop in a different class which will have its own Thread running aside from the main program's thread. This way your application will do both at once :)