Threading Network code in a Swing Application

For my final High school project i have decided to code a Poker game to be played over the network. Problem is, as soon the host starts waiting for a client to connect, everything Swing related freezes. A friend of mine said to use Threads.

Strangely enough, when i made a small example class, this did not happen.

Any e-books,ideas examples about threading please?or a solution to this 'freeze' problem?

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[468 byte] By [Naksa] at [2007-11-27 6:58:08]