Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/xmlbeans/XmlException
<p>I have to read xls file in java.I used poi-3.6 to read xls file in Eclipse.But i m getting this ERROR"<strong>Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/xmlbeans/XmlException at ReadExcel2.main(ReadExcel2.java:38)</strong>".</p>

<p>I have added following jars 
1)poi-3.6-20091214.jar
2)poi-contrib-3.6-20091214.jar
3)poi-examples-3.6-20091214.jar
4)poi-ooxml-3.6-20091214.jar
5)poi-ooxml-schemas-3.6-20091214.jar
6)poi-scratchpad-3.6-20091214.jar</p>

<p>Below is the code which i m using:</p>

<p>import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Workbook;
import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Sheet;
import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Row;
import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Cell;
import org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFWorkbook;
import org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFCell;
import org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFRow;</p>

<p>import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;
public class ReadExcel {</p>

<pre><code>public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    //
    // An excel file name. You can create a file name with a full path
    // information.
    //
    String filename = "C:\\myExcel.xl";
    //
    // Create an ArrayList to store the data read from excel sheet.
    //
    List sheetData = new ArrayList();

    FileInputStream fis = null;
    try {
        //
        // Create a FileInputStream that will be use to read the excel file.
        //
        fis = new FileInputStream(filename);

        //
        // Create an excel workbook from the file system.
        //
       // HSSFWorkbook workbook = new HSSFWorkbook(fis);
        Workbook workbook = new XSSFWorkbook(fis);  

        //
        // Get the first sheet on the workbook.
        //
        Sheet sheet = workbook.getSheetAt(0);

        //
        // When we have a sheet object in hand we can iterator on each
        // sheet's rows and on each row's cells. We store the data read
        // on an ArrayList so that we can printed the content of the excel
        // to the console.
        //
        Iterator rows = sheet.rowIterator();
        while (rows.hasNext()) {
            Row row = (XSSFRow) rows.next();
            Iterator cells = row.cellIterator();

            List data = new ArrayList();
            while (cells.hasNext()) {
                Cell cell = (XSSFCell) cells.next();
                data.add(cell);
            }

            sheetData.add(data);
        }
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } finally {
        if (fis != null) {
            fis.close();
        }
    }

    showExelData(sheetData);
}
private static void showExelData(List sheetData) {
    //
    // Iterates the data and print it out to the console.
    //
    for (int i = 0; i &lt; sheetData.size(); i++) {
        List list = (List) sheetData.get(i);
        for (int j = 0; j &lt; list.size(); j++) {
            Cell cell = (XSSFCell) list.get(j);
            System.out.print(cell.getRichStringCellValue().getString());
            if (j &lt; list.size() - 1) {
                System.out.print(", ");
            }
        }
        System.out.println("");
    }
}
</code></pre>

<p>}</p>

<p>Please help.
thanks in anticipation,
Regards,
Dheeraj!</p>
