Describe the enhancement requested

sun.misc.Unsafe is a Java internal class only accessible to classes loaded of the boot classloader, unless one uses reflection to bypass this restriction.

org.apache.arrow.memory.util.MemoryUtil makes it available as a public field to any java classes which is kind of opening a pandora box. As a first step towards switching from sun.misc.Unsafe to safer memory access methods (which may become a requirement at some point as discussed in JEP 471 ), remove direct access to sun.misc.Unsafe instance.

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Java