JavaFX ObservableList

I have created the following pane:

  1:  <Button id="button" layoutX="126" layoutY="90" text="Click Me!" onAction="#handleButtonAction" fx:id="button" />
  2:     <Label id="label" layoutX="126" layoutY="120" minHeight="16" minWidth="69" prefHeight="16" prefWidth="69" fx:id="label" />
  3: 
  4:     <ListView  fx:id="myList"  id="myList" layoutX="200" layoutY="200" minWidth="100" minHeight="140"   />
  5:             </Pane>

In the controller I had the following code :

  1: import java.net.URL;
  2: import java.util.ResourceBundle;
  3: import javafx.collections.FXCollections;
  4: import javafx.collections.ObservableList;
  5: import javafx.event.ActionEvent;
  6: import javafx.fxml.FXML;
  7: import javafx.fxml.Initializable;
  8: import javafx.scene.control.Label;
  9: import javafx.scene.control.ListView;
 10: 
 11: public class FXMLController implements Initializable {
 12: 
 13:     ObservableList<String> items;
 14:             
 15:     @Override
 16:     public void initialize(URL url, ResourceBundle rb) {
 17:         ListView<String> list = new ListView<String>();
 18:   items =FXCollections.observableArrayList (
 19:     "Cat", "Dog", "Donkey", "Pig");
 20:   myList.setItems(items);
 21: 
 22:     myList.setPrefWidth(100);
 23:   myList.setPrefHeight(70);
 24:         
 25:     }    
 26:     @FXML
 27:   private ListView myList;
 28:     
 29:     @FXML
 30:   private Label label;
 31: 
 32:   @FXML
 33:   private void handleButtonAction(ActionEvent event) {
 34:     System.out.println("Remove the fst item !");
 35:     label.setText("Hello World!");
 36:     items.remove(0);
 37:   }
 38: }

Every click on the button removes the first item from the list behave  like ObservationCollection in WPF.

When there are no items left in the list clicking the button prompt an exception to the console :

Caused by: java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Index: 0, Size: 0
at java.util.ArrayList.rangeCheck(ArrayList.java:604)
at java.util.ArrayList.remove(ArrayList.java:445)
at com.sun.javafx.collections.ObservableListWrapper.remove(ObservableListWrapper.java:251)
at javafxapplication1.FXMLController.handleButtonAction(FXMLController.java:46)
... 62 more

But the application doesn’t hung.