How to install Apache Poi in Java using Maven (eclipse)

If we need to use apache poi in a Maven Project, we can follow the next simple steps.

We enter to the next link https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.poi/poi there we can choose the version of Apache Poi that we prefer, in this example i will use the 3.5 version

We copy the dependency and we download the Jar, as we can see in the following figure

In this example i saved the Jar in the following directory : D:\Poi\poi-3.15.jar

Later we going to Eclipse, and we press right click on the project -> Run As -> Maven Build...

In the field Goals we put:

 install:install-file -Dfile="D:\jdbc\poi-3.15.jar" -DgroupId=org.apache.poi -DartifactId=poi -Dversion=3.15 -Dpackaging=jar  

Click on Apply And latter click on Run.

Finally we open the pom.xml File and we paste the dependency:

 <dependency>  
    <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>  
    <artifactId>poi</artifactId>  
    <version>3.15</version>  
 </dependency>  

Now we can use the apache poi library in our java project with Maven