samredai commented on a change in pull request #3253:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/3253#discussion_r725168996



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File path: site/docs/java-api-quickstart.md
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@@ -23,12 +23,26 @@ Tables are created using either a 
[`Catalog`](./javadoc/master/index.html?org/ap
 
 ### Using a Hive catalog
 
-The Hive catalog connects to a Hive MetaStore to keep track of Iceberg tables. 
This example uses Spark's Hadoop configuration to get a Hive catalog:
+The Hive catalog connects to a Hive MetaStore to keep track of Iceberg tables.
+You can initialize a Hive Catalog with a name and some properties.
+(see: [Catalog 
properties](https://iceberg.apache.org/configuration/#catalog-properties))
 
 ```java
 import org.apache.iceberg.hive.HiveCatalog;
 
-Catalog catalog = new HiveCatalog(spark.sparkContext().hadoopConfiguration());
+Catalog catalog = new HiveCatalog();
+
+Map <String, String> properties = new HashMap<String, String>();
+properties.put("warehouse", "...");
+properties.put("uri", "...");
+
+catalog.initialize("hive", properties);
+```
+
+Alternatively, you can configure the Hive Catalog using Spark's Hadoop 
configuration.

Review comment:
       Ah I see! I missed that part but it makes total sense, I'll update this.




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