JTabbedPane - removing/adding tabs

Question

Using JDK 1.4, I am attempting to refresh a JTabbedPane based on a user selection. I have tried several approaches (removing all of the tabs from the JTabbedPane; removing the panel the JTabbedPane sits on from a larger panel). In both cases, doing a remove (JTabbedPane.removeAll for the JTabbedPane, and Panel.remove [component] for the panel), the area where the JTabbedPane should appear is blank. Here is the code I have tried (createTabs calls the addTab method; createTabPanel puts the tabbedpane on a panel):
public void refreshWindow ( String asReportNo )
     // Remove current tab panel from main panel
     csjpMainPanel.remove ( csjpTabPanel );
     // Recreate tabs, then tab panel
     //csjtab.removeAll();
     //csjtab.revalidate();
     JTabbedPane lsjtab = createTabs ( asReportNo );
     csjtab = lsjtab;
     csjpTabPanel = createTabPanel();
     //csjtab.setVisible ( true );
     //csjpTabPanel.setVisible ( true );
     csjpTabPanel.revalidate();          
     csjpTabPanel.repaint();
     // Put tab panel back on main panel
     GridBagConstraints lgbc = new GridBagConstraints();
     lgbc.gridx = 1;
     lgbc.gridy = 0;
     lgbc.insets = new Insets ( 3, 3, 3, 3 );
     lgbc.weightx = 1.0;
     lgbc.weighty = 0.5;
     lgbc.fill = GridBagConstraints.BOTH;
     lgbc.anchor = GridBagConstraints.NORTHWEST;
     csjpMainPanel.add ( csjpTabPanel, lgbc );
     csjpMainPanel.repaint();          
Any ideas on what I could do to make the tabbed pane visible? I saw that there was a problem with JTabbedPane in earlier releases, but this is with 1.4.
Thanks,
Van Williams

Answer 1

yes, that's right... remove the synchronized blocks and replace them with invoke laters... If your are going to synchronize this, it has to be
synchronized(monitor) {
// update code
-->
synchronized(tabbedPane.getTreeLock()) {
// update code
which is still not as good as the following
-->
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
  // update code
};