Is there a way to access the appengine datastore via JDO/JPA from a java application from within a google compute engine instance. As far as I have seen, I can access manually as described in https://developers.google.com/datastore/docs/getstarted/start_java/
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?