I'm not into client things . You could create a topic in client section in order to get all the things you need from people who are working on client.
About the nick, depends where you want to get the name. If for example you want just to send a message in player when he enter in the world, you have to code in EnterWorld.java . There you can see from other lines that already exists a variable that control the player . for example in my sources this variable is called 'player'. So the only thing you have to code is -> player.sendMessage("hi");.
'player' could be named as activeChar or 'client'.
Then, since you got the 'player' instance, you can get the name from the methods of this class. Usually the method is getName() but idk what you are using. so -> player.getName(); should return the name of the player.