Aligning text in a JPanel/JLabel

Hi guyz,
I have two text strings. One needs to be on the left edge and the other needs to be on the right edge. I created two JLabels and added these texts to them. Then, i used a FlowLayout to create a JPanel. But, all the time, they are being centered. I have mentioned the sizes of the labels also. Still, both the texts are being centered side by side. Here is the snippet of code. "increment" is an integer which identifies the Y position. This code is looped through for a particular no. of times.
       String conditionName = "";
       String conditionValue = "";
       conditionName = "<html>"+condition+"</html>";
       conditionValue = "<html>"+condValue+"</html>";
        JLabel conditionLabel = new JLabel();
        conditionLabel.setText(conditionName);
        conditionLabel.setBounds(5,increment,350,20);
        JLabel conditionValueLabel = new JLabel();
        conditionValueLabel.setText(conditionValue);
        conditionValueLabel.setBounds(360,increment,40,20);
        JPanel conditionsPanel = new JPanel();
        conditionsPanel.setBounds(5,increment,400,300);
        conditionsPanel.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
        conditionsPanel.add(conditionLabel);
        conditionsPanel.add(conditionValueLabel);Can anyone help?

Hey Michael_Dunn,
I have one more question. Though, the logic you gave worked, there is a small problem. I am actually looping through a number of times depending on the input list. So, if it is more than 5 times, then i get more than 5 pairs which is good enough to place them in a ScrollPane nicely. Where as if it is 2 or 3, then the whole scroll pane is being divided equally between those to place them which i don't want. I want to increment and place them one below other. That's why i used and increment variable whose initial value is "55". And each increment step is "25". But, it is not working. Can you tell me why? Here is the code i have used.
        JPanel panel = new JPanel(new GridLayout(1,2));
        JPanel p1 = new JPanel(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.LEFT));
        JPanel p2 = new JPanel(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.RIGHT));
        p1.setBounds(5,increment,350,20);
        p1.setBounds(360,increment,40,20);
        p1.add(new JLabel("Hello",JLabel.LEFT));
        p2.add(new JLabel("World",JLabel.RIGHT));
        panel.setBounds(5,increment,400,300);
        panel.add(p1);
        panel.add(p2);

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