Reading .xlsx file using apache poi gives org.apache.poi.POIXMLException on linux machine

Question

I have an application which reads an .xlsx file and displays the content to the user. The application works fine on a windows environment.

I deployed the .war file of this web app on tomcat6 on a ubuntu server. I also copied the .xlsx files on the server.

The path of the files in the code is correct.

But the line

FileInputStream file = new FileInputStream(new File(FileName));
XSSFWorkbook workbook = new XSSFWorkbook(file);

gives an error

java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
org.apache.poi.POIXMLException: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFFactory.createDocumentPart(XSSFFactory.java:62)
org.apache.poi.POIXMLDocumentPart.read(POIXMLDocumentPart.java:403)
org.apache.poi.POIXMLDocument.load(POIXMLDocument.java:155)
org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFWorkbook.<init>(XSSFWorkbook.java:207)
com.qm.action.GetProjectNames.execute(GetProjectNames.java:107)

I have checked that the variable FileName contains the correct path and filename of the files on server(/usr/local/Metrics/MetricFiles/FY2013_Q2_GIT_Review_Metrics_by_LSS-GC.xlsx)

Since the ubunut server is a VM, I had copied the .xlsx files using WinSCP. The size of the files is also correct.

Why is this error occurring on linux platform?

Adding the Additional exception trace

Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at 
sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at 
sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57) at 
sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) at 
java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:525) at 
org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFFactory.createDocumentPart(XSSFFactory.java:60) ... 68 more 
Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space at java.util.Arrays.copyOfRange(Arrays.java:2694) at java.lang.String.<init>(String.java:203) at 
org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.PiccoloLexer.parseCdataLiteral(PiccoloLexer.java:3027) at 
org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.PiccoloLexer.parseQuotedTagValue(PiccoloLexer.java:2936) at 
org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.PiccoloLexer.parseAttributesNS(PiccoloLexer.java:1754) at 
org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.PiccoloLexer.parseOpenTagNS(PiccoloLexer.java:1521) at 
org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.PiccoloLexer.parseTagNS(PiccoloLexer.java:1362) at 
org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.PiccoloLexer.yylex(PiccoloLexer.java:4678) at 
org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.Piccolo.yylex(Piccolo.java:1290) at 
org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.Piccolo.yyparse(Piccolo.java:1400) at 
org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.Piccolo.parse(Piccolo.java:714) at 
org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.store.Locale$SaxLoader.load(Locale.java:3439) at 
org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.store.Locale.parseToXmlObject(Locale.java:1270) at 
org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.store.Locale.parseToXmlObject(Locale.java:1257) at 
org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.schema.SchemaTypeLoaderBase.parse(SchemaTypeLoaderBase.java:345) at 
org.openxmlformats.schemas.spreadsheetml.x2006.main.StyleSheetDocument$Factory.parse(Unknown Source) at 
org.apache.poi.xssf.model.StylesTable.readFrom(StylesTable.java:121) at 
org.apache.poi.xssf.model.StylesTable.<init>(StylesTable.java:92) at 
sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at 
sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57) at 
sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) at 
java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:525) at 
org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFFactory.createDocumentPart(XSSFFactory.java:60) at 
org.apache.poi.POIXMLDocumentPart.read(POIXMLDocumentPart.java:403) at 
org.apache.poi.POIXMLDocument.load(POIXMLDocument.java:155) at 
org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFWorkbook.<init>(XSSFWorkbook.java:207) at 
com.qm.action.GetProjectNames.execute(GetProjectNames.java:107) at 
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at 
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at 
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at 
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601) at com.opensymphony.xwork2.DefaultActionInvocation.invokeAction(DefaultActionInvocation.java:452)

Answer 1

Like the others answers: add this dependency:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.xmlbeans</groupId>
    <artifactId>xmlbeans</artifactId>
    <version>2.6.0</version>
</dependency>

It will work after that.

In fact poi-ooxml needs poi and poi-ooxml-schemas but poi-ooxml-schemas needs xmlbeans

You can see these prerequisites at this page https://poi.apache.org/overview.html

Answer 2

I have inserted org.apache.xmlbeans in in project. It helped.

Answer 3

I was also getting same exception when reading .xlsx file

org.apache.poi.POIXMLException: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
Caused By :java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlBeans.typeSystemForClassLoadern

Then I"ve removed my old xmlbeans-2.0.jar and put the latest xmlbeans-2.3.0.jar containing this method and it is solved now

Answer 4

Promoting a comment to an answer...

The key part of your stacktrace, which explains what has broken and why, is:

Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space at 
java.util.Arrays.copyOfRange(Arrays.java:2694)

This is telling us that Java didn't have enough memory allocated to it to store all of the data that processing your file entails

If you need help with increasing your JVM heap size, I would suggest you review this previous question or this one, which both talk you through it all.