Coding Style: NetBeans IDE 4.0 Beta2 [Java]

Given a string [strFormat] I need to convert it (using predefined delimiters {}) into a string array. And then I must be able to go the other way (convert the string array back into a string with delimiters {})

So for example:
Given a string strFormat = "{Hello}{Bye}{Ouch}"
I need to put this in a string array [strFormatArray] so that strFormatArray[0] = "Hello", strFormatArray[1] = "Bye", strFormatArray[2] = "Ouch"
Then later I need to be able to take the string array [strFormatArray] and convert it back to the original string [strFormat] with the delimiters.

Any easy way to accomplish this? [built in string and conversion functions]?
Any ideas?