swing Swing Workers and the EDT Find the first N even numbers and display the results in a JTextArea where computations are done in background.

Example

import java.awt.EventQueue;
import java.awt.GridLayout;
import java.awt.event.WindowAdapter;
import java.awt.event.WindowEvent;
import java.awt.event.WindowListener;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JTextArea;
import javax.swing.SwingWorker;

class PrimeNumbersTask extends SwingWorker<List<Integer>, Integer> {
    private final int numbersToFind;

    private final JTextArea textArea;

    PrimeNumbersTask(JTextArea textArea, int numbersToFind) {
        this.numbersToFind = numbersToFind;
        this.textArea = textArea;
    }

    @Override
    public List<Integer> doInBackground() {
        final List<Integer> result = new ArrayList<>();
        boolean interrupted = false;
        for (int i = 0; !interrupted && (i < numbersToFind); i += 2) {
            interrupted = doIntenseComputing();
            result.add(i);
            publish(i); // sends data to process function
        }
        return result;
    }

    private boolean doIntenseComputing() {
        try {
            Thread.sleep(1000);
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    @Override
    protected void process(List<Integer> chunks) {
        for (int number : chunks) {
            // the process method will be called on the EDT
            // thus UI elementes may be updated in here
            textArea.append(number + "\n");
        }
    }
}

public class SwingWorkerExample extends JFrame {
    private JTextArea textArea;

    public SwingWorkerExample() {
        super("Java SwingWorker Example");
        init();
    }

    private void init() {
        setSize(400, 400);
        setLayout(new GridLayout(1, 1));
        textArea = new JTextArea();
        add(textArea);

        addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter() {
            public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) {
                dispose();
                System.exit(0);
            }
        });
    }

    public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {

        SwingWorkerExample ui = new SwingWorkerExample();
        EventQueue.invokeLater(() -> {
            ui.setVisible(true);
        });

        int n = 100;
        PrimeNumbersTask task = new PrimeNumbersTask(ui.textArea, n);
        task.execute(); // run async worker which will do long running task on a
        // different thread
        System.out.println(task.get());
    }
}