Limitation while generating excel drop down list with Apache POI

Question

I\'m trying to generate an excel file with some validations, I\'ve read the poi dev guides for implementing it. During implementation, I got an exception (String lite

Answer 1

Above code works fine. But if I use XSSF classes instead of HSSF, it fails saying Exception in thread

"main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.poi.ss.formula.FormulaParser.parse(Ljava/lang/String;Lorg/apache/poi/‌​ss/formula/FormulaParsingWorkbook;II)[Lorg/apache/poi/ss/formula/ptg/Ptg; at org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFName.setRefersToFormula(XSSFName.java:195) at XLDropdown.main(XLDropdown.java:35)

To create dropdown list using XSSF interfaces I got the solution at

create dropdown list using apache poi XSSF interfaces