Many java processes created in linux

I did a search of this and related archives, but did not see
a discussion on this issue:

In my sun server, starting the services ( reggie, outrigger etc) create
a couple of processes only, but in linux machines (either red hat or
debian ), there are tens or even hundreds of subprocess created. I wonder
if this is normal and why ?

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