added emergency fix to display a "login or create" dialog for all AccessErrors

thrown by the engine when trying to view a conference/topic/post and the user
is not logged in

src/com/silverwrist/util/StringUtil.java

@@ -278,5 +278,48 @@ public class StringUtil
 
   } // end join
 
-} // end class StringUtil
+  public static final List splitList(String data, String delims)
+  {
+    if ((data==null) || (delims==null))
+      return Collections.EMPTY_LIST;
+    ArrayList rc = new ArrayList();
+    StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();
+    boolean accumulate = false;
+    for (int i=0; i<data.length(); i++)
+    { // look at each character in turn
+      char ch = data.charAt(i);
+      if (delims.indexOf(ch)>=0)
+      { // delimiter character - flush the string if we have one
+        if (accumulate)
+        { // flush the buffer
+          rc.add(buf.toString());
+          buf.setLength(0);
+          accumulate = false;
 
+        } // end if
+
+      } // end if
+      else
+      { // ordinary character - accumulate it
+        accumulate = true;
+        buf.append(ch);
+
+      } // end else
+
+    } // end for
+
+    if (rc.isEmpty())
+      return Collections.EMPTY_LIST;
+    else
+      return Collections.unmodifiableList(rc);
+
+  } // end splitList
+
+  public static final String[] splitArray(String data, String delims)
+  {
+    List tmp = splitList(data,delims);
+    return (String[])(tmp.toArray(new String[0]));
+
+  } // end splitArray
+
+} // end class StringUtil