[halffullbrain]

The Eclipse Compiler for Java [1] is a notable exception, architected around incremental compilation, an API for “live” AST manipulation, and a layered non-batch approach to when to invoke various analysis steps.

The LSP for Java [2] used in eg. VSCode’s Java plugins, builds on this API.

But, no, I haven’t seen a generalized approach to this architecture discussed in literature.

1: https://github.com/eclipse-jdt/eclipse.jdt.core 2: https://github.com/eclipse-jdtls/eclipse.jdt.ls