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Spring MVC 3.0 introduced many useful features to work with RESTful interface, including URI templates, content negotation, http method conversion and more. While dealing with RESTful or REST-like API you may like to utilize REST key principle - its Uniform Interface.

Today I was looking for an utility to help me with formating timestamps to user friendly string values like: "moments ago", "few minutes ago", "in couple minutes" etc. Why to write my own implementation, when for sure someone already did it before? And did it better? While googling ("pretty+time+in+java") I found Pretty Time library and I tried it out.