Talos2 just got a new release with some bug fixes and small improvements. Try it out and see for yourself how concise you can get.
Talos is a project from the umbrella group 'Open Source-Kit'. You can find the Open Source-Kit here: http://www.os-kit.org
There are three main projects: Tiny Marbles (object repository), Talos (authorization) and Luigi (search adapter to Lucene). They fit together perfectly.
A reference application is also available: a user management system based on Tiny Marbles and Talos.
You can download the user management system: http://www.tinymarbles.org/examples/mum/index.html... read more
A complete rewrite of Talos has been made to make the API as intuitive and expressive as possible. You can already do most authentication scenarios with the current beta.
Talos is an environment-agnostic authorization manager. It is a library to be used in applications that need to manage access rights for huge sets of objects.
The build script was polished, and now it gets the deps zip from our (somewhat faster) server in os-kit.org.
The 1.0 final version will also have complete javadoc for all the interfaces and some very important classes.