TableFilters are used by FilterTableModel to filter the data.

One of TableFilter's methods:

public boolean filter(ListTableModel tableModel, Object rowData);

public boolean filter(TableModel tableModel, int row);

, can be used to perform the filtering.

TableFilters internally use filters in order to filter the data. You specify the filter that will be used in the constructor:

public TableFilter(Filter filter);

public TableFilter(Filter filter, int column);

Furthermore, you can logically subtract, add, or negate TableFilters to create more complex ones, by using OrTableFilter, AndTableFilter or NotTableFilter respectively.