title: Access Google Appengine datastore from Google Compute Engine via JDO/JPA
body: <p>Is there a way to access the appengine datastore via <strong>JDO/JPA</strong> from a java application <strong>from within a google compute engine instance</strong>. As far as I have seen, I can access manually as described in <a href="https://developers.google.com/datastore/docs/getstarted/start_java/" rel="nofollow">https://developers.google.com/datastore/docs/getstarted/start_java/</a></p>
  
  <p>This works, yet this is very cumbersome - so I am looking for a simple way to use JDO/JPA/Objectivy/... to work on a higher level of abstraction. Any ideas/hints?</p>