Hi,
back again - sorry for the delay! And - sorry again - I have to avow that I was inaccurate in stating 
JideTable does not bind properly. Actually it does! As you (JIDE people) supposed: Only 
SortableTable is affected by this issue.
Now that we've examined all this more carefully, things turned out to be as follows:
 - Both JideTable and SortableTable bind properly to our model;
 - JideTable binds properly to selectedItem, but SortableTable throws a ClassCastException when bound to selectedItem and a table cell is selected (by mouse click, e.g.);
 - nothing changes with JIDE release 3.0.2 and / or "BetterBeansBinding" 1.3.0.
Is there any chance to get this fixed in near future?? 

 Although I'm feeling more and more uncomfortable that I have chosen this forum (but don't know how to switch to another …), for the sake of completeness let me append the CCE:
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.ClassCastException
    at java.lang.Class.cast(Class.java:2990)
    at org.jdesktop.beansbinding.Binding.convertReverse(Binding.java:1321)
    at org.jdesktop.beansbinding.Binding.getTargetValueForSource(Binding.java:909)
    at org.jdesktop.beansbinding.Binding.saveUnmanaged(Binding.java:1268)
    at org.jdesktop.beansbinding.Binding.save(Binding.java:1254)
    at org.jdesktop.beansbinding.AutoBinding.trySaveThenRefresh(AutoBinding.java:176)
    at org.jdesktop.beansbinding.AutoBinding.targetChangedImpl(AutoBinding.java:249)
    at org.jdesktop.beansbinding.Binding.targetChanged(Binding.java:1433)
    at org.jdesktop.beansbinding.Binding.access$1300(Binding.java:38)
    at org.jdesktop.beansbinding.Binding$PSL.propertyStateChanged(Binding.java:1620)
    at org.jdesktop.beansbinding.PropertyHelper.firePropertyStateChange(PropertyHelper.java:212)
    at org.jdesktop.beansbinding.BeanProperty.notifyListeners(BeanProperty.java:712)
    at org.jdesktop.beansbinding.BeanProperty.access$1000(BeanProperty.java:143)
    at org.jdesktop.beansbinding.BeanProperty$SourceEntry.cachedValueChanged(BeanProperty.java:369)
    at org.jdesktop.beansbinding.BeanProperty$SourceEntry.propertyValueChanged(BeanProperty.java:409)
    at org.jdesktop.beansbinding.BeanProperty$SourceEntry.propertyChange(BeanProperty.java:414)
    at java.beans.PropertyChangeSupport.firePropertyChange(PropertyChangeSupport.java:339)
    at java.beans.PropertyChangeSupport.firePropertyChange(PropertyChangeSupport.java:276)
    at org.jdesktop.swingbinding.adapters.BeanAdapterBase.firePropertyChange(BeanAdapterBase.java:112)
    at org.jdesktop.swingbinding.adapters.JTableAdapterProvider$Adapter$Handler.tableSelectionChanged(JTableAdapterProvider.java:81)
    at org.jdesktop.swingbinding.adapters.JTableAdapterProvider$Adapter$Handler.valueChanged(JTableAdapterProvider.java:91)
    at javax.swing.DefaultListSelectionModel.fireValueChanged(DefaultListSelectionModel.java:167)
    at javax.swing.DefaultListSelectionModel.fireValueChanged(DefaultListSelectionModel.java:147)
    at javax.swing.DefaultListSelectionModel.fireValueChanged(DefaultListSelectionModel.java:194)
    at javax.swing.DefaultListSelectionModel.changeSelection(DefaultListSelectionModel.java:388)
    at javax.swing.DefaultListSelectionModel.changeSelection(DefaultListSelectionModel.java:398)
    at javax.swing.DefaultListSelectionModel.setSelectionInterval(DefaultListSelectionModel.java:442)
    at javax.swing.JTable.changeSelectionModel(JTable.java:2352)
    at javax.swing.JTable.changeSelection(JTable.java:2421)
    at com.jidesoft.grid.JideTable.changeSelection(Unknown Source)
    at com.jidesoft.grid.NavigableTable.changeSelection(Unknown Source)
    at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicTableUI$Handler.adjustSelection(BasicTableUI.java:1085)
    at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicTableUI$Handler.mousePressed(BasicTableUI.java:1008)
    at com.jidesoft.swing.DelegateMouseInputListener.mousePressed(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.mousePressed(AWTEventMulticaster.java:263)
    at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:6286)
    at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3267)
    at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:6054)
    at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:2041)
    at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4652)
    at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2099)
    at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4482)
    at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4577)
    at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:4235)
    at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:4168)
    at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2085)
    at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:2478)
    at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4482)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:644)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.access$000(EventQueue.java:85)
    at java.awt.EventQueue$1.run(EventQueue.java:603)
    at java.awt.EventQueue$1.run(EventQueue.java:601)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.security.AccessControlContext$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(AccessControlContext.java:87)
    at java.security.AccessControlContext$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(AccessControlContext.java:98)
    at java.awt.EventQueue$2.run(EventQueue.java:617)
    at java.awt.EventQueue$2.run(EventQueue.java:615)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.security.AccessControlContext$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(AccessControlContext.java:87)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:614)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:269)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:184)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:174)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:169)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:161)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:122)
Let me know, if example code, screenshots, screencasts, ??? would be helpful.
Thanks,
Harald