JTable removing row gives ArrayOutofBounds exception -1

Question 1

You are changing the TableModel inside of a TableModelListener and that seems just a bit risky to me and is a risk for unwanted recursion. I would re-factor your code so as not to do this if possible. If you're still stuck, then you should create and post an sscce.

Edit 1

If I make an sscce out of your code and add println statements:

import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.border.BevelBorder;
import javax.swing.event.*;
import javax.swing.table.*;

public class ExpenditurePanel extends JPanel implements TableModelListener {

   private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
   private static TableModel1 model;
   private JTable table;

   public ExpenditurePanel() {
      model = new TableModel1();
      table = new JTable(model);
      table.setBorder(new BevelBorder(BevelBorder.LOWERED, null, null, null,
            null));
      table.setRowSelectionAllowed(false);
      table.setFillsViewportHeight(true);
      table.setCellSelectionEnabled(true);
      table.setColumnSelectionAllowed(false);

      model.addColumn("Name");
      model.addColumn("Week");
      model.addColumn("Fortnight");
      model.addColumn("Month");
      model.addColumn("Year");
      model.addColumn("Remove");

      Object[] default1 = { "Accomodation", "", "", "", "", false };
      Object[] default2 = { "Food", "", "", "", "", false };

      model.addRow(default1);
      model.addRow(default2);

      model.addTableModelListener(this);

      this.add(new JScrollPane(table));
      table.setRowSorter(null);

   }

   public static TableModel1 getModel() {
      return model;
   }

   @Override
   public void tableChanged(TableModelEvent e) {
      int row = e.getFirstRow();
      int column = e.getColumn();

      // **** printf added below
      System.out.printf("[row: %d, column: %d]%n", row, column);

      model = (TableModel1) e.getSource();

      String columnName = model.getColumnName(column);

      // **** println added below
      System.out.println("columnName: " + columnName);

      Object data = model.getValueAt(row, column);

      if (model.getValueAt(row, column) == Boolean.TRUE) {
         System.out.println("Condition working");

         // *** AIOOBE called here
         model.removeRow(row);
      }
   }

   public static void main(String[] args) {
      SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
         public void run() {
            ExpenditurePanel panel = new ExpenditurePanel();
            JFrame frame = new JFrame("foo");
            frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
            frame.getContentPane().add(panel);
            frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
            frame.pack();
            frame.setVisible(true);
         }
      });
   }
}

// **** no idea how close this is to your code *****
class TableModel1 extends DefaultTableModel {
   @Override
   public Class<?> getColumnClass(int columnIndex) {
      if (getRowCount() == 0) {
         return super.getColumnClass(columnIndex);
      }
      Object value = getValueAt(0, columnIndex);
      if (value == null) {
         return super.getColumnClass(columnIndex);
      }

      return value.getClass();
   }
}

I get this output:

[row: 0, column: 5]
columnName: Remove
Condition working
[row: 0, column: -1]
columnName: 
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: -1
    at java.util.Vector.elementAt(Unknown Source)
    ...... etc ......

So you see the model listener's tableChanged(...) method is called twice due to a recursion occurring from changing the listened to object inside of the listener, and the second time it's called, it has a column of -1 which causes your AIOOBE to be thrown.

Edit 2
A potential solution is to remove the listener before making the change to the model and then re-adding the listener after making the change:

public void tableChanged(TableModelEvent e) {
  int row = e.getFirstRow();
  int column = e.getColumn();
  System.out.printf("[row: %d, column: %d]%n", row, column);
  model = (TableModel1) e.getSource();
  String columnName = model.getColumnName(column);
  System.out.println("columnName: " + columnName);
  Object data = model.getValueAt(row, column);

  if (model.getValueAt(row, column) == Boolean.TRUE) {
     System.out.println("Condition working");

     model.removeTableModelListener(this);
     model.removeRow(row);
     model.addTableModelListener(this);
  }
}

Question 2

To elaborate a bit on @Hover's correct trackdown and assuming a valid use-case like "we have a list of jobs, if done with one remove that job it from the list":

The base problem with your listener is that it doesn't check which type of change it is notified with: you are interested only in the update of a particular column, not in any other (fi. like the removal the row), that causes the error on the second notification: a modelEvent of typ removed has a column of -1

The solution is to add the check and do nothing if trigger wasn't an update on the specific column:

@Override
public void tableChanged(TableModelEvent e) {
    if (!TableUtilities.isUpdate(e)) return;
    ...  
}

Analysing a TableModelEvent is a bit inconvenient (not entirely intuitive conditions, requires thorough reading of the TableModelEvent javadoc) - which I'm too lazy to keep it in memory, so there's a utility class in SwingX, the relevant parts copied here for convenience:

/**
 * Returns a boolean indication whether the event represents a
 * dataChanged type.
 * 
 * @param e the event to examine.
 * @return true if the event is of type dataChanged, false else.
 */
public static boolean isDataChanged(TableModelEvent e) {
    if (e == null)
        return false;
    return e.getType() == TableModelEvent.UPDATE && e.getFirstRow() == 0
            && e.getLastRow() == Integer.MAX_VALUE;
}

/**
 * Returns a boolean indication whether the event represents a
 * update type.
 * 
 * @param e the event to examine.
 * @return true if the event is a true update, false
 *         otherwise.
 */
public static boolean isUpdate(TableModelEvent e) {
    if (isStructureChanged(e))
        return false;
    return e.getType() == TableModelEvent.UPDATE
            && e.getLastRow() < Integer.MAX_VALUE;
}

/**
 * Returns a boolean indication whether the event represents a
 * insert type.
 * 
 * @param e the event to examine
 * @return true if the event is of type insert, false otherwise.
 */
public static boolean isInsert(TableModelEvent e) {
    if (e == null) return false;
    return TableModelEvent.INSERT == e.getType();
}


/**
 * Returns a boolean indication whether the event represents a
 * structureChanged type.
 * 
 * @param e the event to examine.
 * @return true if the event is of type structureChanged or null, false
 *         else.
 */
public static boolean isStructureChanged(TableModelEvent e) {
    return e == null || e.getFirstRow() == TableModelEvent.HEADER_ROW;
}

Question 3

Just make so:

clsController.getTable().setSortable( false );
model.removeRow( selectedModelRow );
clsController.getTable().setSortable( true );

and it works!

Question 4

You can check its event type. Doing so, you can skip the content of the tableChanged method for add and delete.

public void tableChanged(TableModelEvent e) {
    int type = e.getType();

    if (type != TableModelEvent.DELETE && type != TableModelEvent.INSERT) {

    // operation only for update

    }
}