Cannot get RequestDispatcher for the first request

Hi everybody,
I've a servlet which after doing some processes, will forward to another jsp page. I found that the first request of this servlet after Tomcat is restarted always fail -- a blank page is returned instead of the target jsp page of the forward method.
Below is my code:
RequestDispatcher rd = null;
rd = request.getRequestDispatcher('target.jsp');
if (rd != null) {
rd.forward(request, response);
else {
System.out.println('rd is NULL!!??');
A blank page is returned because the request.getRequestDispatcher('target.jsp') method returned null and I did not print any output in this case. But the servlet (forward method) works fine for the second or later requests.
I suspected that the first call of request.getRequestDispatcher('target.jsp') returns null is because the target.jsp is not loaded into the servlet container yet. Am I right? If this is the case, is there anything that I can do to solve it?
The Tomcat I am using is version 4.1.27
Many thanks.

Hi tolmank,
It works now, thank you very much. But I still don't understand why, can you explain it to me please.
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