NoSuchFieldError when reading Excel sheet in java

Question

I\'ve followed a simple guide to constructing a workbook using Apache POI XSSF. Following the same guide I was able to WRITE an Excel sheet, however when attempting to read

Answer 1

After looking around a bit. I browsed the documentation for APACHE POI, and saw that this was one of the constants (not that i know what that really means).

But eventually, I realized all the tutorials I used were pre-2014.

So I just changed my Maven POM to version 3.11 for both dependencies of apache-poi, and poi-ooxml.

Its working now.