I have created a custom field that reads some properties from a properties file. I would like to make this configurable through the JIRA user interface. I could not find any documentation on how to do this. I currently subclass TextCFType. Do I need to use CustomFieldParams somehow? Do I need to use the OptionsManager?

I have been looking at the source code of the multi-level-cascade-plugin, but it seems quite complicated. They also mention in their docs that you need to copy some JSP's into JIRA itself and are not in the plugin jar. Is this always like this? Note that the options for my plugin themselves are not used directly as choices for the user when using the custom field (as this plugin does), but really as "settings" that influence what the custom field displays. (Basically, the settings are db connection parameters and the custom field is a html <select/> populated by that db).