I’ve been working with Eclipse for quite a while and I’m pretty certain that there is no canonical way of doing this.
In Eclipse these things are managed on a per-editor basis and the Java editor does not support what your looking for for all I know. At least for the Java editor you can do some minor configuration in what is highlighted and how (Preferences > Java > Editor > Mark Occurrences), but I guess you already know that.
As for plugins, I’m not aware of any plugin that achieves what you’re looking for. As a matter of fact I’d be surprised if there really was a plugin which achieves what you’re looking for.
If something comes up I’d much appreciate you sharing it here, I’ve been trying to get decent highlighting into Eclipse for years unsuccessfully… 🙂