JTabbedPane and JTextArea

I have a problem, and I can't find what I need.
I have an application that is suppose to be an address book. I've created 26 tabs (lettered A - Z) and in each tab, I've placed a JPanel (e.g. panelA, panelB, etc) and on each panel I've placed a JTextArea and a JList . I load my data from a file into a Vector.
Here's my dilemma, I don't know how to get my data from my Vector to my JTextArea or my JList. If I instantiate a new JList and place it on the tab, it adds it as a new JList.
I can get the tab via getSource(), but I don't know how to access the JTextArea or the JList in the tab.
I can sort my Vector, print it out via System.out.println's, shoot, I can even pull out specific elements that correspond to a specific letter (the person who's last name starts with "M" for instance), but getting it into the JList or putting it in the JTextArea eludes me. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

1) Create a custom panel (MyAddressPanel). Add the JList and JTextArea to the Panel
2) Create a couple of accessor method (getAddressList, getAddressTextArea) to access any component you add to the panel
3) Add each panel to the tabbed pane
Now whenever you want to access the data from a specific tab you would do something like:
int selected = tabbedPane.getSelectedIndex()
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JList list = panel.getAddressList();
...

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