Program stucks on creation of class object in java

I have a parent class "Application Window" and a child class "config". When I am creating an object of "config" class execution tends to go into a loop and keeps on creating this object.

Following is the code snipppet:

public class ApplicationWindow implements ActionListener{
    public String workSpace;
    public String logFile;
    public JFrame frmGenericAutomationFramework;
    public JProgressBar progressBar;
    public File currentTestSuiteFolder;
    public String currentTestSuiteName;

    config cfg;
    SettingsFrame settingsFrame;
    TestSuiteFrame testSuiteFrame;
    PromptTestSuiteName testSuitePrompt;

    public ApplicationWindow (){
        initialize();

        //**cfg  = new config();**
        cfg.readProperties();
    }
}

Child class "config" below:

public class config extends ApplicationWindow{
    String str;
    File cfgfile;
    FileOutputStream out;
    FileInputStream in;
    Properties props;

    String filepath = "D:/Webdriverwork/GAF/res/elements.properties";

    public config (){
        try{
            cfgfile = new File(filepath);
            in = new FileInputStream(cfgfile);
            props = new Properties();       
        }

        catch (Exception e){
            // Log message in log file
            String message = e.getMessage();

            System.out.println(message);

            // Exit the system
            System.exit(0);
        }
    }

    public void readProperties (){
        try{
            props.load(in);

            workSpace = props.getProperty("WORKSPACE");
            logFile = props.getProperty("LOGFILE");
        }
        catch (Exception e){
            // Log message in log file
            String message = e.getMessage();

            System.out.println(message);

            // Exit the system
            System.exit(0);
        }
    }

    public void updateProperty (String key, String value){
        try{
            props.setProperty(key,value);
        }
        catch (Exception e){
            // Log message in log file
            String message = e.getMessage();

            System.out.println(message);

            // Exit the system
            System.exit(0);
        }       
    }

    public void writeProperties (){
        try{
            in.close();
            out = new FileOutputStream(cfgfile);
            props.store(out, null);
            out.close();
        }
        catch (Exception e){
            // Log message in log file
            String message = e.getMessage();

            System.out.println(message);

            // Exit the system
            System.exit(0);
        }
    }
}