Button- opens new window- updates original window

Question

I have been going crazy with this one. I have created a row of jlabels based upon data in an object. at the end of the row is an edit button that opens a new window to edit the data. in the new window is a submit button. every thing almost works how i want it to. the data is updated but is not showing up again unless hit the edit button again (I think that the thread is just not finishing but it could be a logic error: I have an action listener nested in an action listener). I tried moving data update calls to inside the action performed area of submit edit but that only slowed label updating further. any ideas would be great.
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.border.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.math.*;
class Bill {
     String VendorName = new String();                    //ACTUAL DATA
     String DueDate = new String();
     String Comment = new String();
     String Amount = new String();
     JLabel vendorNamedLabel = new JLabel();                    //LABELS THAT SHOW DATA
     JLabel dueDatedLabel = new JLabel();
     JLabel commentedLabel = new JLabel();
     JLabel amountedLabel = new JLabel();
     JButton edit = new JButton("edit");
     JTextField vendorNameField = new JTextField(15);          //TEXTFIELDS FOR EDITING DATA
     JTextField dueDateField = new JTextField(15);
     JTextField commentField = new JTextField(15);
     JTextField amountField = new JTextField(15);
     JButton submitButton = new JButton("Submit");
     JLabel vendorNameLabel = new JLabel("Vendor Name");          //LABELS FOR TEXTFIELDS
     JLabel dueDateLabel = new JLabel("Due Date");
     JLabel commentLabel = new JLabel("Comments");
     JLabel amountLabel = new JLabel("Amount Due");
     public Bill() {}
     public Bill(Vendor vendor, String dueDate, String comment, String amount) {          
          VendorName = vendor.getName();                    //VENDOR HAS A STRING ACCESSED BY GETNAME
          DueDate = dueDate;
          Comment = comment;
          Amount = amount;
     /**CREATES A SINGLE ROW OF JLABELS THAT SHOW BILL DATA FOLLOWED BY AN EDIT BUTTON*/
     public Container showBill(Container container) {
          /**CREATING THE GUI COMPONENTS*/
          vendorNamedLabel.setText(VendorName);
          dueDatedLabel.setText(DueDate);
          commentedLabel.setText(Comment);
          amountedLabel.setText(Amount);
          /**SETTING UP THE CONTAINER*/
          //LAYOUT
          GridBagLayout layout = new GridBagLayout();
          GridBagConstraints c = new GridBagConstraints();
          container.setLayout(layout);
          //SHARED CONSTRAINTS
          c.fill = GridBagConstraints.BOTH;
          c.gridy = 0;
          c.weighty = 1.0;
          c.weightx = 1.0;
          //ADDING COMPONENTS WITH INDIVIDUAL CONSTAINTS
          c.gridx = 0;
          container.add(vendorNamedLabel, c);
          c.gridx = 1;
          container.add(dueDatedLabel, c);
          c.gridx = 2;
          container.add(commentedLabel, c);
          c.gridx = 3;
          container.add(amountedLabel, c);
          c.gridx = 4;
          container.add(edit, c);
          edit.addActionListener(new EditBill(VendorName, DueDate, Comment, Amount));
          return container;
     /**CREATES A JFRAME THAT HAS TEXTFIELDS WITH LABELS WITH A SUBMIT BUTTON*/
     class EditBill implements ActionListener {
          JFrame frame = new JFrame();
          JPanel panel = new JPanel();
          public EditBill (String vendorName, String dueDate, String comment, String amount) {
               vendorNameField.setHorizontalAlignment(JTextField.RIGHT);//SUPPLIES CURRENT NAME
               vendorNameField.setText(vendorName);
               dueDateField.setHorizontalAlignment(JTextField.RIGHT);//SUPPLIES CURRENT DATE
               dueDateField.setText(dueDate);
               commentField.setHorizontalAlignment(JTextField.RIGHT);//SUPPLIES CURRENT COMMENT
               commentField.setText(comment);
               amountField.setHorizontalAlignment(JTextField.RIGHT);//SUPPLIES CURRENT AMOUNT
               amountField.setText(amount);
          public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
               /**LAYING OUT THE COMPONENTS*/
               frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
               //BORDER
               Border border = BorderFactory.createTitledBorder("Bill Information Editor");
               panel.setBorder(border);
               //SETTING UP LAYOUT
               GridBagLayout layout = new GridBagLayout();
               GridBagConstraints c = new GridBagConstraints();
               panel.setLayout(layout);
               //SIMILAR CONSTRAINTS
               c.insets = new Insets(2, 2, 2, 2);
               c.fill = GridBagConstraints.BOTH;
               c.weighty = 1.0;
               //ADDING COMPONENTS WITH INDIVIDUAL CONSTRAINTS
               c.gridy = 0;                         //ROW ONE
               c.gridx = 0;                         //NAME
               c.weightx = 0.4;
               panel.add(vendorNameLabel, c);
               c.gridx = 1;
               c.weightx = 0.6;
               panel.add(vendorNameField, c);
               c.gridx = 2;                         //DUE DATE
               c.weightx = 0.4;
               panel.add(dueDateLabel, c);
               c.gridx = 3;
               c.weightx = 0.6;
               panel.add(dueDateField, c);
               c.gridy = 1;                         //ROW TWO
               c.gridx = 0;                         //COMMENT
               c.weightx = 0.4;
               panel.add(commentLabel, c);
               c.gridx = 1;
               c.weightx = 0.6;
               panel.add(commentField, c);
               c.gridx = 2;                         //AMOUNT
               c.weightx = 0.4;
               panel.add(amountLabel, c);
               c.gridx = 3;
               c.weightx = 0.6;
               panel.add(amountField, c);
               c.gridx = 0;
               c.gridy = 2;
               c.gridwidth = 4;
               c.fill = GridBagConstraints.NONE;
               panel.add(submitButton, c);               //SUBMIT BUTTON
               submitButton.addActionListener(new SubmitEdit(     vendorNameField.getText(),
                                             dueDateField.getText(),
                                             commentField.getText(),
                                             amountField.getText()
                                     );          //SENDS INFORMATION FOR ACTION
               frame.add(panel);
               frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
               frame.pack();
               frame.setVisible(true);
          /**SUBMITS THE INFORMATION TO THE PROPER OBJECTS*/
          class SubmitEdit implements ActionListener {
               /**UPDATES BILL TO USER INPUT DATA RETREIVED FROM THE BILLEDIT FRAME*/
               public SubmitEdit (String vendorName, String dueDate, String comment, String amount) {
                    VendorName = vendorName;
                    vendorNamedLabel.setText(VendorName);
                    DueDate = dueDate;
                    dueDatedLabel.setText(DueDate);
                    Comment = comment;
                    commentedLabel.setText(Comment);
                    Amount = amount;
                    amountedLabel.setText(Amount);
               public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                    frame.dispose();
/**TEST CODE FOR THE BILL, EDITBILL, SUBMITEDIT CLASS*/
class BillTest {
     public static void createAndShowGUI() {
          Vendor vendor = new Vendor( "AT&T", "800.585.7928", "81773296563228",
               "PO Box 630047", "Dallas", "Texas", "75263-0047",
               "Telephone", "lily1830", "password");
          Bill bill = new Bill(vendor, "09.07.2006", "September Bill", "192.07");
          JFrame frame = new JFrame("Simple display of bill info");
               JFrame.setDefaultLookAndFeelDecorated(true);
               frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
          JPanel panel = new JPanel();
               bill.showBill(panel);
               frame.add(panel);
          frame.pack();
          frame.setVisible(true);
     public static void main (String[] args) {
          javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
               public void run() {
                    createAndShowGUI();
}

Answer 1

hey zadok, I'll send the other 5 dukes to any response from you to this question and I won't harp on any answer. I am new to programming and have been studying for about 6-9 months on my own. This is really my first complete program that I am working on. I have read that getters and setter undermine the object oriented approach as per:
Why getter and setter methods are evil written by Allen Holub at javaworld.com
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-09-2003/jw-0905-toolbox.html
am i overreading into it when I try to contain the problem into an object so that i don't have to write about a dozen getters and setters.