My JFrame appears blank

When my application opens, It pops up a JFrame that has absolutely nothing on it even though I have added things to the pane. The only way for me to fix this is to take the mouse and go to the right side of the pane where the cursor turns into an arrow and you can resize the pane and click. I don't have to resize the pane all I have to do is click the mouse over the edge of the pane whereas if i dragged the mouse I would resize it. I really don't want the end user to have to do that to get everything to appear on my form so how do i fix this?

[557 byte] By [Lateralus01a] at [2007-11-26 22:49:14]