Exception in thread “main” java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/xmlbeans/XmlException

Question

I have to read xls file in java.I used poi-3.6 to read xls file in Eclipse.But i m getting this ERROR\"Exception in thread \"main\" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/a

Answer 1

Had the same error on Apache POI 3.16. Added the following jars from Apache POI /ooxml-lib/xmlbeans-2.6.0 and for the next exception regarding collections /lib/commons-collections4-4.1.jar to fix.