Document that the properties are copied to the registered services
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servlet.init.hide-service-list-page | true | Hide the CXF service list
application.ready.service.filter | | A service that must be present in order for applications to get started
+properties existing in the application service, as those in the whiteboard configuration, are used when the servlet contexts and servlets are registered.
+
## Integrations
The `integrations` folder contains OSGi enabled integrations for a variety of useful libraries that you might want to use with JAX-RS. In many cases these are just adding OSGi lifecycle and configuration to existing JAX-RS enabled libraries.
