Exception while reading excel data through POI in soapui

Hello,

I reading the data associated to web service from excel using third party API(apache POI). I executed the script the groovy console and it worked fine. But when I execute in SOAP UI groovy step, getting following error:

• ERROR:org.apache.poi.POIXMLException: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException

• Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.apache.poi.POIXMLTypeLoader

import org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFCell;
import org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFRow;
import org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFSheet;
import org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFWorkbook;

class ExcelReader {
  public XSSFWorkbook workbook = null;
  public XSSFSheet sheet = null;
  public XSSFRow row1;
  public int rowcount;
  public String testplanpath;
 
 def readRowCount(String FilePath) {
  def rowCount
  def path
  path = FilePath;
 
  InputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream(path);
  workbook = new XSSFWorkbook(inputStream);
  
  sheet = workbook.getSheet("Sheet1");
  rowCount= (sheet.getLastRowNum() - sheet.getFirstRowNum() + 1);
   rowCount;
  
 }

}

def groovyUtils = new com.eviware.soapui.support.GroovyUtils(context)
def myTestCase = context.testCase
def Tpath
def rcount
Tpath="D:\\POC\\API Testing\\TestPlans\\Testplan3.xlsx"
 
ExcelReader excelReader = new ExcelReader();
rcount = excelReader.readRowCount(Tpath);
log.info "row count is : $rows"

Please find the attach detailed error  log.