NoSuchFieldError when reading Excel sheet in java

After looking around a bit. I browsed the documentation for APACHE POI, and saw that this was one of the constants (not that i know what that really means).

But eventually, I realized all the tutorials I used were pre-2014.

So I just changed my Maven POM to version 3.11 for both dependencies of apache-poi, and poi-ooxml.

Its working now.

I got same error with different constant:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: RETURN_NULL_AND_BLANK

Googled lot but no answer. I was using apache poi-ooxml version 3.11. Later I changed to version 3.17. Then it was working fine.

Hope this might helpful someone.