POI API APACHE importing to netbeans

Question

I have read some tips in here but i still cant do import like this:

import org.apache.poi.hwpf.HWPFDocument;
import org.apache.poi.hwpf.extractor.WordExtractor;

I have add the zip file (poi-src-3.8-20120326) that downloaded from here to library inmy neatbeans project.

Answer 1

Unzip the file you downloaded, find: poi-3.8-20120326.jar , open NetBeans project, find Libraries , right click on it and select Add JAR/Folder , select the poi-3.8-20120326.jar and thats it. When you do that you can use classes from poi-3.8-20120326.jar . This jar will be on your classpath.

Notice that in the unzipped directory there is also lib folder, these are the dependencies for poi , make sure you add them as well.

Answer 2

You will need the compiled code on the class path. Rather than just the source code. Typically projects distribute these separately.

Take a look into using maven to automatically download dependencies and source for external projects such as poi.

Get the compile working outside of netbeans. Only then open it in net beans.