Salve a tutti,
chiedo il vostro aiuto per un problema sul focus.

Ho cercato un po' su internet, ma non sono riuscito a risolvere la questione..
Ho provato un po' tutti i metodi.. requestFocus(), requestFocusInWindow() , ma niente..

Da qualche parte ho letto che il funzionamento del metodo dipende dalla posizione nel codice. Mi sembra un po' strano in realtà..

Ho messo il codice.. mi direste dove sto sbagliando ? Il focus va messo su jButton1..
Grazie

codice:
public class FirstUsePanel extends javax.swing.JPanel { 
          private JButton jButton1,jButton2;
          private JLabel jLabel1,jLabel2,jLabel3; 
          private JSeparator jSeparator1; 

          private MainFrame index; 
          private final JPanel myself=this; 
          private final int PANEL_WIDTH=515, PANEL_HEIGTH=80; 

         public FirstUsePanel(MainFrame index) { 
                   // COSTRUTTORE
                    this.index=index; 
                    this.setSize(PANEL_WIDTH, PANEL_HEIGTH); 

                    initComponents();
          }

          private void initComponents() { 
                  jLabel1 = new JLabel(); 
                  jLabel2 = new JLabel(); 
                  jLabel3 = new JLabel(); 
                  jSeparator1 = new JSeparator(); 

                  jButton1 = new JButton(); 
                  jButton2 = new JButton(); 

                  jLabel1.setIcon(new ImageIcon("images\\crypto_icon.JPG"));
                  jLabel2.setText("WELCOME !!!"); 
                  jLabel3.setText("Click Next to continue the installation or Cancel to exit setup "); 

                   jButton1.setText("Next");
                   jButton2.setText("Cancel"); 
                   jButton1.requestFocus(); /* NON FUNZIONA :( */

/* QUESTO IN BASSO É IL CODICE DI LAYOUT GENERATO DA NetBeans */

                     javax.swing.GroupLayout layout = new javax.swing.GroupLayout(this);           
                     this.setLayout(layout); layout.setHorizontalGroup( 
                     layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING) 
                       .addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup() .addContainerGap() 
                       .addComponent(jLabel1, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, 122,  
                        javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE) 
            .addGroup(layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING) 
                       .addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup() 
                .addPreferredGap(javax.swing.LayoutStyle.ComponentPlacement.UNRELATED) 
            .addGroup(layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING) 
            .addComponent(jLabel2, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, 196, 
             javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE) .addComponent(jSeparator1, 
             javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, 154, 
             javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE) .addComponent(jLabel3))) 
             .addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup() .addGap(44, 44, 44) 
             .addComponent(jButton2, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, 102, 
             javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE) .addGap(34, 34, 34) 
             .addComponent(jButton1, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, 102, 
             javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE))) .addContainerGap(45, 
             Short.MAX_VALUE)) ); layout.setVerticalGroup( 
             layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING) 
             .addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup() .addContainerGap() 
            .addGroup(layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING) 
            .addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup() .addComponent(jLabel1, 
             javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, 147, 
             javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE) 
            .addContainerGap(javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, Short.MAX_VALUE)) 
            .addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup() .addComponent(jLabel2, 
            javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, 29, 
            javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE) 
            .addPreferredGap(javax.swing.LayoutStyle.ComponentPlacement.RELATED) 
            .addComponent(jSeparator1, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, 10, 
            javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE) .addGap(18, 18, 18) 
           .addComponent(jLabel3) 
           .addPreferredGap(javax.swing.LayoutStyle.ComponentPlacement.RELATED, 30, 
             Short.MAX_VALUE) 
           .addGroup(layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.BASELINE) 
           .addComponent(jButton2) .addComponent(jButton1)) .addGap(28, 28, 28)))) ); }