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Do you have a favorite alternative to the capability model that you feel is superior? I somewhat casually follow these discussions and I'm always looking for ne

• hinkley 4y ago
  The weird thing about the security APIs in Java is that it contained both capabilities and an ACL model with a sort of hierarchy to it, both of inheritance and being able to run a function in a scope. I got to use it for real on a project and if you overlooked the extreme clunkiness of trying to capture a set of rights as configuration, it wasn't that bad. So I could say, do that again but with a better way to define rules programatically instead of a priori. Multi-tenant, multiple roles, or a Cartesian product of the two sort of demand a little bit of bespoke rules engine work.