Um - shouldn't this have the [2012] tag for historical posts?<p>I mean, I love URI templates. They're neat, they're reversible, but they're not exactly new, right?
If you're working with URI Templates in Java (or any other JVM language that can use Java libraries), I'd highly recommend <a href="https://github.com/damnhandy/Handy-URI-Templates" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/damnhandy/Handy-URI-Templates</a>