pom.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>com.milind</groupId>
   <artifactId>mr-excel</artifactId>
   <version>1.0</version>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
   <properties>
      <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
      <maven.compiler.source>1.7</maven.compiler.source>
      <maven.compiler.target>1.7</maven.compiler.target>
   </properties>
   <dependencies>
      <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
         <artifactId>poi</artifactId>
         <version>3.5-beta5</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
         <artifactId>hadoop-client</artifactId>
         <version>2.5.1</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
         <artifactId>hadoop-common</artifactId>
         <version>2.5.1</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
         <artifactId>hadoop-mapreduce-client-core</artifactId>
         <version>2.5.1</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
         <artifactId>hadoop-hdfs</artifactId>
         <version>2.5.1</version>
      </dependency>
   </dependencies>
   <build>
      <finalName>mr-excel</finalName>
      <plugins>
         <!-- download source code in Eclipse, best practice -->
         <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-eclipse-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.9</version>
            <configuration>
               <downloadSources>true</downloadSources>
               <downloadJavadocs>false</downloadJavadocs>
            </configuration>
         </plugin>
         <!-- Set a compiler level -->
         <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.3.2</version>
            <configuration>
               <source>${jdk.version}</source>
               <target>${jdk.version}</target>
            </configuration>
         </plugin>
         <!-- Maven Assembly Plugin -->
         <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.4.1</version>
            <configuration>
               <!-- get all project dependencies -->
               <descriptorRefs>
                  <descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
               </descriptorRefs>
               <!-- MainClass in mainfest make a executable jar -->
               <archive>
                  <manifest>
                     <mainClass>com.milind.mr.excel.ExcelDriver</mainClass>
                  </manifest>
               </archive>
            </configuration>
            <executions>
               <execution>
                  <id>make-assembly</id>
                  <!-- bind to the packaging phase -->
                  <phase>package</phase>
                  <goals>
                     <goal>single</goal>
                  </goals>
               </execution>
            </executions>
         </plugin>
      </plugins>
   </build>
</project>

This is the dependency file that I used while reading an Excel file using MapReduce API