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Data & Services section The Data & Services section of the Administrator is the interface between you, ColdFusion MX, data sources, and Verity search and indexing features. The following table describes some common tasks that you can perform in the Data & Services section of the Administrator: Task Description Create and manage The Data Sources page lets you establish, edit, and delete JDBC JDBC data sources data source connections for ColdFusion MX. For more information, see Chapter 3, "Data Source Management" on page 29. Create and maintain Verity collections The Verity Collections page lets you create and delete Verity collections and perform maintenance operations on collections that you create. For more information, see "Verity Collections page" on page 17. Register a Verity K2 The Verity K2 Server page lets you register a K2 Server to use with Server with ColdFusion MX. For more information, see Working with Verity ColdFusion MX Tools. Define mappings for Web services let you produce and consume remote application web services functionality over the internet. For more information, see "Web Services page" on page 18. Data Sources page The Data Sources page lets you create, edit, and delete data sources. Before you can use a database in a ColdFusion application, you must register the data source in the ColdFusion Administrator. For more information, see Chapter 3, "Data Source Management" on page 29. Verity Collections page The Verity Development Kit (VDK) provides indexing and searching technology to create, populate, and manage collections of indexed data that are optimized for fast and efficient site searches. It is available on the Verity Collections page. A collection is a logical group of documents and metadata about the documents. The metadata includes word indexes, an internal documents table of document field information, and logical pointers to the document files. For more information about building search interfaces, see the chapters about the cfindex, cfsearch, and cfcollection tags in Developing ColdFusion MX Applications with CFML. ColdFusion lets you manage your collections from the Administrator. You can index, repair, optimize, purge, or delete Verity collections that are connected to ColdFusion. Data & Services section 17