Swing components not visible

Hello,
My big and ununderstandable problem is that i have developed my application under eclipse IDE and it works perfectly well, the application has A JTabbedPane with 6 Tabs consisting of a JEditPane first 5 and the last one consisting of a JSplitPane, which inside it�s got another JSplitPane which inside has a JScrollPane wrapping a Jtable.
This works marvelous on my development station, but when i export it to a Jar file and execute it on another machine, all the first 5 tabs are displayed perfectly when i click on them. But the last one doesn�t, if i roll over the places and click i can obtain the functionality but can�t see well most of the swing components.
Thank you very much in advance for your attention.

In the absence of code I can only guess. Here's my first guess. You used a Panel instead of a JPanel for the tab.

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          setSize(457,283);
          JLabelStartDate.setText("Start Date:");
          add(JLabelStartDate);
          JLabelStartDate.setBounds(12,12,156,24);
          JTextFieldStartDate.setDisabledTextColor(java.awt.Color.white);
          JTextFieldStartDate.setToolTipText("This is the date to start generating time units.");
          JTextFieldStartDate.setEditable(false);
          add(JTextFieldStartDate);
          JTextFieldStartDate.setBackground(java.awt.Color.white);
          JTextFieldStartDate.setBounds(168,12,216,24);
          JButtonCalendar1.setText("-");
          JButtonCalendar1.setActionCommand("-");
          add(JButtonCalendar1);
          JButtonCalendar1.setBounds(384,12,24,24);
          JLabelEndDate.setText("End Date:");
          add(JLabelEndDate);
          JLabelEndDate.setBackground(java.awt.Color.cyan);
          JLabelEndDate.setBounds(12,48,156,24);
          JTextFieldEndDate.setDisabledTextColor(java.awt.Color.white);
          JTextFieldEndDate.setToolTipText("This is the date to start generating time units.");
          JTextFieldEndDate.setEditable(false);
          add(JTextFieldEndDate);
          JTextFieldEndDate.setBackground(java.awt.Color.white);
          JTextFieldEndDate.setBounds(168,48,216,24);
          JButtonCalendar2.setText("-");
          JButtonCalendar2.setActionCommand("-");
          add(JButtonCalendar2);
          JButtonCalendar2.setBounds(384,48,24,24);
          JLabelStartTime.setText("Start Time:");
          add(JLabelStartTime);
          JLabelStartTime.setBounds(12,84,156,24);
          JTextFieldStartTime.setToolTipText("This is the time of day to start generating time units.");
          add(JTextFieldStartTime);
          JTextFieldStartTime.setBounds(168,84,240,24);
          JLabelEndTime.setText("End Time:");
          add(JLabelEndTime);
          JLabelEndTime.setBounds(12,120,156,24);
          JTextFieldEndTime.setToolTipText("This is the time of day to end generating time units.");
          add(JTextFieldEndTime);
          JTextFieldEndTime.setBounds(168,120,240,24);
          JLabelUnitOfMeasure.setText("Unit of Measure:");
          add(JLabelUnitOfMeasure);
          JLabelUnitOfMeasure.setBounds(12,156,156,24);
          JComboBoxUnitOfMeasure.setModel(stringComboBoxModel1);
          JComboBoxUnitOfMeasure.setToolTipText("This is the unit of measure used when generating the time units.");
          add(JComboBoxUnitOfMeasure);
          JComboBoxUnitOfMeasure.setBackground(java.awt.Color.white);
          JComboBoxUnitOfMeasure.setForeground(java.awt.Color.black);
          JComboBoxUnitOfMeasure.setBounds(168,156,240,24);
          JLabelBlockSize.setText("Block Size:");
          add(JLabelBlockSize);
          JLabelBlockSize.setBounds(12,192,156,24);
          JTextFieldBlockSize.setText("45");
          JTextFieldBlockSize.setToolTipText("This is the size of the time unit in Unit of Measures.");
          add(JTextFieldBlockSize);
          JTextFieldBlockSize.setBounds(168,192,240,24);
          JButtonSubmit.setText("Submit");
          JButtonSubmit.setActionCommand("Submit");
          JButtonSubmit.setToolTipText("This button will generate the time units.");
          add(JButtonSubmit);
          JButtonSubmit.setBounds(36,228,108,40);
          JButtonCancel.setText("Cancel");
          JButtonCancel.setActionCommand("Cancel");
          JButtonCancel.setToolTipText("This button will discard any changes.");
          add(JButtonCancel);
          JButtonCancel.setBounds(288,228,108,40);
               String[] tempString = new String[3];
               tempString[0] = "Days";
               tempString[1] = "Hours";
               tempString[2] = "Minutes";
               stringComboBoxModel1.setItems(tempString);
          //$$ stringComboBoxModel1.move(0,288);
          JComboBoxUnitOfMeasure.setSelectedIndex(2);
          //{{REGISTER_LISTENERS
          SymAction lSymAction = new SymAction();
          JButtonSubmit.addActionListener(lSymAction);
          JButtonCalendar1.addActionListener(lSymAction);
          JButtonCalendar2.addActionListener(lSymAction);
     //{{DECLARE_CONTROLS
     javax.swing.JLabel JLabelStartDate = new javax.swing.JLabel();
     javax.swing.JTextField JTextFieldStartDate = new javax.swing.JTextField();
     javax.swing.JButton JButtonCalendar1 = new javax.swing.JButton();
     javax.swing.JLabel JLabelEndDate = new javax.swing.JLabel();
     javax.swing.JTextField JTextFieldEndDate = new javax.swing.JTextField();
     javax.swing.JButton JButtonCalendar2 = new javax.swing.JButton();
     javax.swing.JLabel JLabelStartTime = new javax.swing.JLabel();
     javax.swing.JTextField JTextFieldStartTime = new javax.swing.JTextField();
     javax.swing.JLabel JLabelEndTime = new javax.swing.JLabel();
     javax.swing.JTextField JTextFieldEndTime = new javax.swing.JTextField();
     javax.swing.JLabel JLabelUnitOfMeasure = new javax.swing.JLabel();
     javax.swing.JComboBox JComboBoxUnitOfMeasure = new javax.swing.JComboBox();
     javax.swing.JLabel JLabelBlockSize = new javax.swing.JLabel();
     javax.swing.JTextField JTextFieldBlockSize = new javax.swing.JTextField();
     javax.swing.JButton JButtonSubmit = new javax.swing.JButton();
     javax.swing.JButton JButtonCancel = new javax.swing.JButton();
     com.symantec.itools.javax.swing.models.StringComboBoxModel stringComboBoxModel1 = new com.symantec.itools.javax.swing.models.StringComboBoxModel();
     class SymAction implements java.awt.event.ActionListener
          public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent event)
               Object object = event.getSource();
               if (object == JButtonSubmit)
                    JButtonSubmit_actionPerformed(event);
               else if (object == JButtonCalendar1)
                    JButtonCalendar1_actionPerformed(event);
               else if (object == JButtonCalendar2)
                    JButtonCalendar2_actionPerformed(event);
     void JButtonSubmit_actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent event)
          System.out.println("See Submit button");
          TimeUnitCreate timeUnitCreate = new TimeUnitCreate(
          JTextFieldStartDate.getText(),
          JTextFieldEndDate.getText(),
          JTextFieldStartTime.getText(),
          JTextFieldEndTime.getText(),
          (String)JComboBoxUnitOfMeasure.getSelectedItem(),
          JTextFieldBlockSize.getText()
          timeUnitCreate.createTimeUnits();
          this.setVisible(false);
System.out.println("Done creating Time Units.");
// (new TimeUnitDefinition()).setVisible(true);
     void JButtonCalendar1_actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent event)
     CalendarDialog calendarDialog = new CalendarDialog(parentFrame,"Date",true);
     calendarDialog.show();
     JTextFieldStartDate.setText(calendarDialog.getSelectedDate());
     void JButtonCalendar2_actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent event)
     CalendarDialog calendarDialog = new CalendarDialog(parentFrame,"Date",true);
     calendarDialog.show();
     JTextFieldEndDate.setText(calendarDialog.getSelectedDate());
}

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