I want to redirect from servlet to jira's dashboard.

What i am trying to do : when the user click create isse and fill all the details and submit, i check if the user with openid, after i check, i need to redirect the user to jira dashboard or i should be above to redirect to any workflow screen.

I tried the redirect with the following lines.

response.sendRedirect("/Dashboard.jspa");

after the servlet finishes, i want to redirect, i have the HttpServletResponse object. when i use the above redirect method it doesn't redirect.

please help.