JComponent stops getting rendered once it goes off the screen

There are a couple of errors I can find in your program

1. You’re using a null layout, please see Null layout is evil and the answers in this question to see why you should avoid its use. (Probably not in this case, as per @MadProgrammer’s comment below), this is just another approach

2. while (true) { this line might block the Event Dispatch Thread (EDT) along with this line: Thread.sleep(16);, See Lesson: Concurrency in Swing to learn more about and How to use Swing Timers. You should also place your program on the EDT which can be done:

   public static void main(String[] args) {
       SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
           @Override
           public void run() {
               //Your constructor here
           }
       });
   }
   

3. You’re not calling super.paintComponent() on your paintComponent() method of the Wall class which could break the paint chain, always call it first.

4. You’re extending JComponent, it would be better to extend JPanel and do custom painting over it using the Shapes API

With all of the above in mind, you can then have a code like this one:

import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.geom.Rectangle2D;

import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;
import javax.swing.Timer;

public class SingleAnimation {

    private JFrame frame;
    private Timer timer;

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                new SingleAnimation().createAndShowGui();
            }
        });
    }

    public void createAndShowGui() {
        frame = new JFrame(getClass().getSimpleName());

        Wall wall = new Wall(300, 0);

        timer = new Timer(16, new ActionListener() {
            @Override
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                wall.moveWall(-2, 0);
            }
        });

        timer.setInitialDelay(0);
        timer.start();

        frame.add(wall);
        frame.pack();
        frame.setVisible(true);
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    }
}

class Wall extends JPanel {
    private int xCoord;
    private int yCoord;

    public int getxCoord() {
        return xCoord;
    }

    public void setxCoord(int xCoord) {
        this.xCoord = xCoord;
    }

    public int getyCoord() {
        return yCoord;
    }

    public void setyCoord(int yCoord) {
        this.yCoord = yCoord;
    }

    public Wall(int x, int y) {
        this.xCoord = x;
        this.yCoord = y;
    }

    public void moveWall(int xUnits, int yUnits) {
        xCoord += xUnits;
        yCoord += yUnits;
        repaint();
    }

    @Override
    public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
        return new Dimension(400, 400);
    }

    @Override
    protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
        super.paintComponent(g);
        Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) g;
        g2d.setColor(Color.BLUE);

        g2d.fill(new Rectangle2D.Double(xCoord, yCoord, 100, 20));
    }
}

Which will produce a similar output like this one: