Could not initialize class org.apache.poi.xssf.model.SharedStringsTable Error when using Apache Poi

I'm getting the following error on my JAX-RS app

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.apache.poi.xssf.model.SharedStringsTable 

I think I'm getting the error on this line

 XSSFWorkbook workbook = new XSSFWorkbook(); 

I have the following libraries on the libs folder

poi-5.2.2.jar poi-ooxml-5.2.2.jar poi-ooxml-lite-5.2.2.jar poi-scratchpad-5.2.2.jar 

I'm running this application on Tomcat 9 on Java 11. Please advice to resolve this issue if possible

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