Concrete Example with plain JavaFX - SmartBear/GuavaFX GitHub Wiki

import javafx.beans.InvalidationListener;
import javafx.beans.Observable;
import javafx.collections.FXCollections;
import javafx.collections.ObservableList;

final ObservableList<Tweet> filteredList = FXCollections.observableArrayList();
final ObservableList<TweetNode> tweetNodes = FXCollections.observableArrayList();

tweets.addListener(new InvalidationListener() {
    @Override
    public void invalidated(Observable observable) {
        for( Tweet tweet : tweets )
        {
            if( contains( "javafx" ) )
            {
                filteredList.add( tweet );
            }
        }
    }
});

filteredList.addListener(new InvalidationListener() {
    @Override
    public void invalidated(Observable observable) {
        for( Tweet tweet : tweets )
        {
            tweetNodes.add( toTweetNode( tweet ) );
        }
    }
});

bindContent( tweetsListView.getItems(), tweetNodes );