Required maven dependencies for Apache POI to work

Question

I want to use Apache POI library to parse excel files (old versions and newer versions of excel). So I was wondering what jars do i need to include from the Apache POI becau

Answer 1

There are multiple jars which are required for your APACHE POI to work with your application.

List of JAR file:-

1. poi-4.1.0
2. poi-ooxml-4.1.0
3. commons-collections4-4.3
4. commons-compress-1.18
5. xmlbeans-3.1.0
6. poi-ooxml-schemas-3.9
7. dom4j-1.6.1

Answer 2

For an excel writer you might need the following:

            <dependency>
              <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
              <artifactId>poi</artifactId>
              <version>3.10-FINAL</version>
           </dependency>


        <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
            <artifactId>poi-ooxml</artifactId>
            <version>${apache.poi.version}</version>
       </dependency>

Answer 3

this is the list of maven artifact id for all poi component. in this link http://poi.apache.org/overview.html#components

Answer 4

No, you don't have to include all of POI's dependencies. Maven's transitive dependency mechanism will take care of that. As noted you just have to express a dependency on the appropriate POI artifact. For example:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
    <artifactId>poi-ooxml</artifactId>
    <version>3.8-beta4</version>
</dependency>

Edit(UPDATE): I don't know about previous versions but to resolve imports to XSSFWorkbook and other classes in org.apache.poi package you need to add dependency for poi-ooxml too. The dependencies will be:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
    <artifactId>poi</artifactId>
    <version>4.1.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
    <artifactId>poi-ooxml</artifactId>
    <version>4.1.2</version>
</dependency>

Answer 5

The following works for me:

<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.poi/poi -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
        <artifactId>poi</artifactId>
        <version>3.16</version>
    </dependency>
    <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.poi/poi-ooxml -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
        <artifactId>poi-ooxml</artifactId>
        <version>3.16</version>
    </dependency>

Answer 6

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
        <artifactId>poi-ooxml</artifactId>
        <version>3.10-FINAL</version>
    </dependency>