Welcome!
The GeoTools library (http://geotools.org/) indeed used, by creating a
geotools datastore and packaging it up in a jar you can ask GeoServer to work
with your database.
There is a guide for making a datastore using "AbstractDataStore" here:
- DataStore Developers Guide
Since you are
I am looking for technical information on how to integrate a new
geospatially enabled relational database with GeoServer. In particular, I'm
looking to integrate with Teradata.
I see some very high level deployment related documentation for certain DB
platforms but no developer related documenta