JavaFX isn't hard to learn. In fact, any developer with a little bit of object-oriented knowledge and a penchant for desktop development in Java can quickly put together a feature-rich GUI application ...

It was announced earlier this month that the JavaFX 2.1 Developer Preview Edition (early access) for Windows is available for download (previously available for Mac ).

So, I'm trying to kind of recreate the "Auto Filter" functionality in Excel in this JavaFX app I'm writing -- for each column, bind the column contents to a ComboBox/ChoiceBox (herein labelled as ...