Using setBounds or setLocation on JTextArea isn't working

I am adding a JTextArea to my JPanel with this code:

commentTextArea.setLineWrap(true);
commentTextArea.setWrapStyleWord(true);
commentTextArea.setVisible(true);
this.add(commentTextArea);
commentTextArea.setBounds(0, 0, 100, 100);
//commentTextArea.setLocation(0, 0);

Whenever I use setLocation(0,0), the JTextArea never moves. It is always in the top middle of the screen, not at (0,0). The same goes for setBounds(0,0,100,100) BUT the height and width are set this way, just not the location. Why is this?

Full Code

import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;

import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JMenuBar;
import javax.swing.JMenuItem;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JTextArea;

public class UMLEditor {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        JFrame frame = new UMLWindow();
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        frame.setBounds(30, 30, 1000, 700);
        frame.getContentPane().setBackground(Color.white);
        frame.setVisible(true);
        frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        frame.setVisible(true);
    }
}

class UMLWindow extends JFrame {
    Canvas canvas = new Canvas();

    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    public UMLWindow() {
        addMenus();
    }

    public void addMenus() {

        getContentPane().add(canvas);

        JMenuBar menubar = new JMenuBar();

        JMenuItem newTextBox = new JMenuItem("New Text Box");
        newTextBox.setMnemonic(KeyEvent.VK_E);
        newTextBox.setToolTipText("Exit application");
        newTextBox.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
            @Override
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event) {
                canvas.addTextBox();
            }
        });

        menubar.add(newTextBox);

        setJMenuBar(menubar);

        setSize(300, 200);
        setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    }
}

class Canvas extends JPanel {

    JTextArea commentTextArea = new JTextArea(10, 10);

    public Canvas() {
        this.setOpaque(true);

    }

    public void addTextBox() {

        commentTextArea.setLineWrap(true);
        commentTextArea.setWrapStyleWord(true);
        commentTextArea.setVisible(true);
        commentTextArea.setLocation(0, 0);
        this.add(commentTextArea);
        commentTextArea.setBounds(0, 0, 100, 100);

        revalidate();
        repaint();
    }
}

Setting a component's position via setBounds(...) only works for null layouts, i.e.,

container.setLayout(null);` 

but regardless of this, I'm going suggest that you not do this as this makes for very inflexible GUI's that while they might look good on one platform look terrible on most other platforms or screen resolutions and that are very difficult to update and maintain. Instead you will want to study and learn the layout managers and then nest JPanels, each using its own layout manager to create pleasing and complex GUI's that look good on all OS's.

Also there's a second hidden danger to setting the size of a JTextArea -- do this, and it will not work correctly in a JScrollPane, the usual place where JTextAreas reside, since it cannot expand correctly as lines of text are added. So it goes doubly so that you should never set the size of a JTextArea.