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 because in following link:

http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.poi

I found lots of jars to be included, do I need to include them all?

If so, what is the latest stable version to be included, and does it work with Microsoft's Office 2010?

Answer 1

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>

Answer 2

If you are not using maven, then you will need **

• poi
• poi-ooxml
• xmlbeans
• dom4j
• poi-ooxml-schemas
• stax-api
• ooxml-schemas

Answer 3

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 4

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>