Use send redirect before doGet finish

I have a servlet that emails a report to the user when they fill in the form. Then the servlet redirects to another page. I try to send the redirect page first and let the process continue as shown in the code:

public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) {

response.sendRedirect(response.encodeRedirectURL(揳nother_page?;

processAndsendEmail(); //takes 10 seconds

}

However the server (Tomcat) seems to send the redirect page after the doGet method is done. The user can not see the another_page until the process is finished.

Any idea to make this work?

Thanks.

[642 byte] By [BruceJina] at [2007-11-27 8:35:36]