Displaying a custom progress dialog

I have a Java app in which I want to display a custom non-modal progress dialog, but I cannot get it to display until all the work in the main thread is complete.
Basically, I want the following:
- User presses a button
- Progress dialog is displayed
- Work is performed
- Progress dialog is hidden
- Msg is displayed to the user
Right now, the progress dialog is shown but not fully painted until all the work is performed.
How can I get the dialog to display and be updated as the work progresses?
Note: I cannot use ProgressMonitor because it has a 'Cancel' button. The user is not allowed to cancel my long running task.
THANK YOU!

If you are doing a long task in the event thread then other events, such as redraws, will wait 'till the long task is completed.
Creating a thread is no big deal ...
Runnable job = new Runnable() {
public void run() {
doLongTask();
Thread t = new Thread(job);
t.start()Controlling thread interactions via wait() and notify() can get interesting, but Java doesn't make it needlessly complex.

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