App Engine Datastore access

Is it possible to query App Engine's Datastore from outside the cloud, i.e. a client application?

I could possibly write an app to be housed within AppStore and query the Datastore returning XML-formatted data; I want to know, however, if there are any Datastore endpoints which would allow me to do it directly.

Also, in case it is possible, am I able to do 开发者_如何学JAVAso via SSL?

Yes. The remote_api library supports exactly this use-case. If you're using Java, there's a Java remote_api handler available, and the client will be available at some point in the future.

You can use this over SSL in the same way as any other handler.

There's no reason you couldn't create your own app engine application that exposes the datastore as a web service (either http or https). In fact, here is a link to a python version.