How to read content from ms word files using Jakarta POI

Question

I\'ve included jakarta-poi-1.5.1-final-20020615.jar file to read content from ms word.

I am unable to do this ...can anyone help me?

Answer 1

You need to move to a newer version of POI - the one you're on is about 9 years old! Grab the latest version of POI (it's just Apache POI now, hasn't been Apache Jakarta POI for a few years now), you'll want either 3.7 Final or 3.8 beta 2 as of writing.

Then, have a read through the HWPF docs and you should be good to go.