Adding jpanels to existing frame

Hi all.
Just looking for some advice regarding a UI i am producing using netbeans.
Not sure if this is neing posted in correct area so if not either move it or
let me know and i will repost elsewhere.
I have a jframe  which consists of a jpanel and a button. I also have a
seperate class which produces another jPanel. When the button is clicked in
the original jframe i want to replace the first jpanel with the second. I
had thought that when the button was clicked I could simply do a
1stPanel.add(2ndPanel) and then a repaint() but this is not working.
I think that something needs to change in the layout manager but as netbeans
creates this I am not sure how or what to change.
I will eventually have several classes all creating independent Jpanels and
I would like to add these to my original frame as and when i require them so
any help or ideas and hw this might be done would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
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