illegal forward reference in java
<pre><code> import java.io.*;
 import jxl.*;
 class Xlparsing
 {
   Workbook wb =wb.getWorkbook(new File(
    "C:\\Documents and Settings\\kmoorthi\\Desktop\\ak\\new.xls"));
   // Illegal forward reference What it means
   Sheet st = wb.getSheet(0);
   Cell cell1 = st.getCell(0,0);
   String a1 = cell1.getContents();
   public static void main(String s[])
   {
     System.out.println(new Xlparsing().a1);
   }
 }
</code></pre>

<p>Hi When i tried to extract data from excel sheet illegal forward reference error comes in the file object creation please resolve this .  Thanks in Advance</p>
