I hope you will not be offended, but I’m going to take this offer at face value. 
If it’s not too much trouble, could you provide some guidance on learning how to load your sources into Eclipse to create a project that runs on its own? Any links or advice would be much appreciated. At the moment, I am studying very basic tutorials and have added the files to a project but these do not suggest my next step.
Also, might you offer any suggestions on a specific usage of the plugin and the server for connection to a MySQL database? My intention is to use the sockets plugin to load and save data through the java server. This data will be of the sorts used by Inventory, Chat, Stats, and etc systems. I would like a single, unified method for handling data. Do you see any problems with this approach?
I am studying tutorials on Java - MySQL connection and the necessary coding seems to be within my limited abilities.
I am a programmer of sorts (I was trained to program in Pascal) and do have a satisfactory understanding of general concepts, but Java is new territory for me and learning a new IDE and methodology has always been a painful process.
Thanks in advance!