As discussed with Rob, JBIDE-23784 added support for incremental deployment over management API for WildFly 11 / EAP 7.1. But it does not actually deploy incrementally. It will still redeploy the whole module on the server. The improvement that was done in that JIRA is that now the whole project is not copied over to the server every time there is a change - now only the changes are being sent. But the whole module is still redeployed.

So I think it's worth looking into if it's possible to improve this further so that the module is not always redeployed on the server.