Good Config Thing

ConfigManagerOrWhatever.java

public class ConfigManagerOrWhatever {
    public ConfigManagerOrWhatever(ConfigTemplate template) {
        //RealFile.addnode(template.template()) or whatever this actually looks like in configurate
    }
}

// The rest of the methods required for fetching options or whatever.

ConfigReal.java

public class ConfigReal implements ConfigTemplate {
    @Override
    public ConfigurationNode template() { // This file would go in the individual plugins rather than common
        // Create node
        // All of our code to add the options/comments

        return thatNewNode;
    }
}

ConfigTemplate.java

public interface ConfigTemplate {
    ConfigurationNode template();
}