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The Firebase Java SDK is a pure java port of the Firebase Android SDK
to run in clientside java environments such as the desktop.
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Note this is different to the official [Firebase Admin Java SDK](https://github.com/firebase/firebase-admin-java) which enables access
to Firebase services from privileged environments (such as servers or cloud).