title: XSSFWorkbook takes a lot of time to load
body: <p>I am using the following code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>File file = new File("abc.xlsx");
  InputStream st = new FileInputStream(file);
  XSSFWorkbook wb = new XSSFWorkbook(st);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The xlsx file itself has 25,000 rows and each row has content in 500 columns. During debugging, I saw that the third row where I create a XSSFWorkbook, it takes a lot of time (1 hour!) to complete this statement.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a better way to access the values of the original xlsx file?</p>