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I think the headache comes from accessing the datastore in an OO-like way. The GAE Python API makes this a lot simpler.

The Java Datastore API is much more straightforward as well. I strongly prefer to just use it directly over JDO/JPA, which suffers from a bit of an impedance mismatch.

This is correct - I was referring to using JDO.

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