Add usage documentation for the Java library
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The Java parquet library has no usage documentation besides the sparse information available in the README. The only thing I could find were a few old (10yr) 3rd party tutorials scattered on the internet using the hadoop module. I spent a work day sifting through the API docs and searching on the internet to try to piece together something. Ultimately, I decided to give up on doing Parquet files using Java because there are alternative file formats that are better documented, and I felt trying to use parquet-mr would be a huge hassle to maintain in the future. This library seems reasonably maintained and comprehensive, but there is just a huge barrier to using the library which I think turns off a lot of developers like me.
I kindly request usage documentation be written to cover all the major aspects of the library, and for the more nitty gritty use cases, pointers to what API classes/methods could be looked at further.
I may be misunderstanding the purpose of this library, and if so, is there a different Java Parquet library that is recommended for higher level parquet file IO?
**Reporter**: [Isaac Nygaard](https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=azmisov)
**Note**: *This issue was originally created as [PARQUET-2490](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-2490). Please see the [migration documentation](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-2502) for further details.*
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