I am doing a program that is supposed to do the following.  As a query
is being processed, the results are to be displayed in a JTable at the
bottom.  I have already made sure the queries run okay.  However, after
the query is processed, the results do not come up at the bottom until
I minimize (or maximize) the window.  I want to know how to make the
window update itself automatically without waiting for the user to
minimize/maximize it.  If you need some code to answer my question,
here is the listByReqeust class that does the querying:

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.sql.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.event.*;
import javax.swing.text.JTextComponent;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.swing.table.*;
import java.text.*;
import java.awt.print.*;
import java.lang.reflect.*;
//import java.pension.util.*;

public class listByRequest extends JFrame implements ActionListener{
    private ScrollingPanel fields;
    private JTextField output, input, input1, input2, input3;
    private Connection connection;
    private String searchKey, searchStart, query, listQuery, whatIsInput,
social;
    private JList resultList;
    private JPanel listPanel, topPanel, mainPanel;
    ResultSet resultSet;
    JTable table[] = new JTable[100];
    JPanel bottomPanel;
    boolean flag[] = new boolean[20];
    int c = 0, contCount = 0;
    private JLabel lname, fname, gnumber, pcode;
    private JButton close, print;
    Container[] cont = new Container[100];

    public listByRequest(Connection c, ScrollingPanel f, JPanel bp, JTable
listTable)
    {

        fields = f;
        connection = c;
        bottomPanel = bp;
        table[contCount] = listTable;

    }

    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
       {
        lname = new JLabel();
        fname = new JLabel();
        gnumber = new JLabel();
        pcode = new JLabel();
        topPanel = new JPanel();

        try{
            Statement statement = connection.createStatement();

            query = "SELECT ssec, lastname, firstname, streetadress, city,
state, zipcode, groupnumber FROM students WHERE";

            System.out.println("I'm about to start constructing query");

            if(!fields.lastName.getText().equals("")){
                query = query+" lastname = '"+fields.lastName.getText()+"'";
                flag[0] = true;
                if((!fields.firstName.getText().equals("")) ||
(!fields.groupNumber.getText().equals("")) ||
(!fields.programCode.getText().equals("")))
                    query = query+" AND";
                //System.out.println(query);
                lname.setText("Last name = "+fields.lastName.getText());
                topPanel.add(lname);

            }
            if(!fields.firstName.getText().equals("")){
                flag[1]=true;
                System.out.println("The first name appears as
"+fields.firstName.getText());
                query = query+" firstname = '"+fields.firstName.getText()+"'";;
                if((!fields.groupNumber.getText().equals("")) ||
(!fields.programCode.getText().equals("")))
                    query = query+" AND";
                fname.setText("First name = "+fields.firstName.getText());
                topPanel.add(fname);
            }
            if(!fields.groupNumber.getText().equals("")){
                flag[3]=true;
                System.out.println("The group number is
"+fields.groupNumber.getText());
                query = query+" groupnumber =
'"+fields.groupNumber.getText()+"'";
                if(!fields.programCode.getText().equals(""))
                    query = query+" AND";
                gnumber.setText("Group number =
"+fields.groupNumber.getText());
                topPanel.add(gnumber);
            }
            if(!fields.programCode.getText().equals("")){
                flag[4]=true;
                System.out.println("The program code is
"+fields.programCode.getText());
                query = query+" programcode = '"+fields.programCode.getText()+"'";
                pcode.setText("Program code = "+fields.programCode.getText());
                topPanel.add(pcode);
            }
            System.out.println(query);
            if(query == "SELECT * FROM students WHERE"){
                JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Invalid query", "Invalid
query", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
                System.exit(1);
            }
            System.out.println("\nSending query: "+query+"\n");

            //table = new JTable(12, 12);

            //Container cont = getContentPane();

            //cont.add(table);

            resultSet = statement.executeQuery(query);
            System.out.println("\nResults found...");

            showList(resultSet);

            System.out.println("\nQuery successful");
            resultSet.close();

            //setSize(1050, 1050);

        }
        catch(SQLException sqlex){
            System.out.println("Something wrong with SQL finding the record");
            sqlex.printStackTrace();
            System.out.println(sqlex.toString());
        }
       }

public void showList(ResultSet rs){
        contCount++;
        cont[contCount] = getContentPane();
        listPanel = new JPanel();
        Vector columnHeads = new Vector();
        Vector rows = new Vector();
        cont[contCount].setLayout(new BorderLayout());
        //frame = new JFrame();

        try{
            boolean moreRecords = rs.next();

            bottomPanel.remove(table[contCount-1]);

            //listPanel = new JPanel();

            if(!moreRecords){
                JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(this, "ResultSet contained no
records");
                setTitle("No records to display");
                return;
            }
            boolean nextExists;
            ResultSetMetaData rsmd = rs.getMetaData();

            for(int i=1; i<=rsmd.getColumnCount(); ++i){
                columnHeads.addElement(rsmd.getColumnName(i));
                //columnHeads.elementAt(i).setWidth(5);
            }

            do{
                rows.addElement(getNextRow(rs, rsmd));
                nextExists = rs.next();
                //if(nextExists)
                //    System.out.println("Next exists");
                //else
                //    System.out.println("No next");

            }while(nextExists);
            table[contCount] = new JTable(rows, columnHeads);
            ExcelAdapter ea = new ExcelAdapter(table[contCount]);

            bottomPanel.add(table[contCount]);

            validate();

        }

        catch(SQLException sqlex){
            System.out.println("SQL Exception");
            sqlex.printStackTrace();
        }

        catch(Exception ex){
               ex.printStackTrace();
              System.out.println(ex.toString());
        }

    }

    public Vector getNextRow(ResultSet rs, ResultSetMetaData rsmd) throws
SQLException{
            Vector currentRow = new Vector();
            for (int i=1; i<=rsmd.getColumnCount(); ++i){
                switch(rsmd.getColumnType(i)){
                    case Types.VARCHAR:
                    case Types.LONGVARCHAR:
                        currentRow.addElement(rs.getString(i));
                                  break;
                    case Types.INTEGER:
                        currentRow.addElement(new Long(rs.getLong(i)));
                        break;
                    default:
                        //System.out.println("Type was: "+rsmd.getColumnTypeName(i));
                }
            }
            return currentRow;
    }

}