When I first tried to write data to Excel file I had issues with missing classes because Apache POI has a lot of implicit dependencies you hear about when you try to export your data to Excel. I also had issues with orchestrating versions of those dependencies. Following is the maven dependency list needed for your code to work. Be aware that changing versions may cause artifact version incompatibility and you may end up with ClassNotFoundException or MethodNotFoundError. Currently, version 4.1 of apache poi is the newest.

<dependencies>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.servicemix.bundles</groupId>
    <artifactId>org.apache.servicemix.bundles.poi</artifactId>
    <version>4.1.2_1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.xmlbeans</groupId>
    <artifactId>xmlbeans</artifactId>
    <version>3.1.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
    <artifactId>commons-collections4</artifactId>
    <version>4.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
    <artifactId>commons-compress</artifactId>
    <version>1.20</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>

That's it and happy coding!

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