The anwer consists of two parts. Denisk was correct about the location of persistence. Xml, it should be under src.
I was missing some dependencies to datanucleus (I thought they are provided). After adding them I got plenty of relevant exceptions. After resolving them everything works.So - it was coincidence of two problem, each of them masked part of the other.
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