Too many process?

[Sumith Ail]

Hi Friends,

Please excuse me if this question has been asked on this list a number of times.I am 
trying to install Tomcat 3.2.2 from RPM on RH Linux 6.2 using j2sdk 1.2.2 FCS from 
blackdown.org. I am able to start tomcat but it starts a lot of java process 
immediately without even anybody accessing the Tomcat server.

[root@leo /root]#pstree | grep java
 |-java---java---39*[java]

Is this how it should behave or am I missing something.

Would appreciate any hints from the gurus