Start Thread method behaviour

Question

I'm using Oracle 10
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining optionsI created two Java classes and a wrapper procedure.
1. The first class timeOutSAPEntry has a delay caused by sleep method of 10 sec. then updates a row in table sap_entry.
2. The second class createMonitorSAPEntry creates an instance of timeOutSAPEntry, call start() method and ends.
3. And the wrapper procedure just calls createMonitorSAPEntry.
My problem: when I call the wrapper procedure, it hangs for 10 sec (consequence of sleep method). But, I expected that the thread could be created, started and then the control returns to procedure and finishes immediatelly. You can see in the execution below the sysdate before and after the procedure call.
Is there any solution? I would like the same behaviour of others JVM, where the main thread continues the execution and not hangs out waiting for the started thread.
create or replace
       and compile java source named "timeOutSAPEntry"
as
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.PreparedStatement;
public class timeOutSAPEntry
    extends Thread{
    public void run(){
        try{
             this.sleep(10000);
             Connection conn =
                    DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:default:connection:");
             PreparedStatement  st = conn.prepareStatement("update cmforna.sap_entry set status = 'Failed' where Status = 'Sent'");
             st.executeUpdate();
             st.close();
             conn.commit();
             conn.close();      
        }catch(Exception e){
            e.printStackTrace();
create or replace
       and compile java source named "createMonitorSAPEntry"
as
public class createMonitorSAPEntry{
   public static void create(){
        timeOutSAPEntry to = new timeOutSAPEntry();
        to.start();
create or replace procedure create_monitor_post
as
language java name 'createMonitorSAPEntry.create()';
SQL> insert into sap_entry
  2  (id, posted_on, status)
  3  values
  4  (6, sysdate, 'Sent');
1 row created.
SQL>
SQL> commit;
Commit complete.
SQL>
SQL> select to_char(sysdate, 'hh24:mi:ss') Before_Time from dual;
BEFORE_T
16:27:04
SQL>
SQL> exec create_monitor_post;
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL>
SQL> select to_char(sysdate, 'hh24:mi:ss') After_Time from dual;
AFTER_TI
16:27:14
SQL> Many tks,
Miguel

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