Multi-threaded job to run Java

[Larry Gorlin <LGorlin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In doing research to help speed up my java code, I've come accross
something I don't understand. It involves Java and multi-threaded AS/400
jobs.  
 
In quite a few places throughout the IBM documentation, paragraphs like
the following can be found telling how a Java program is to be run in a
multi-threaded job:

To run this program, use SBMJOB CMD(CALL PGM(YOURLIB/PGMNAME))
ALWMLTTHD(*YES). Any job that creates a Java virtual machine must be
multithread-capable. The only job on iSeries 400 that is
multithread-capable is a batch immediate (BCI) job. 

This example comes from a V5R1 document.  However, when I emulate it on
our V5R1 system, I don't end up with a multi-threaded, BCI, job.
Instead, regardless of whether or not the ALWMLTTHD(*YES) parameter is
included, I end up with a BCH job and a second, system generated BCI job
that does the Java work.  It's as if the ALWMLTTHD(*YES) parameter is
ignored.

Further adding to the confusion -- and of more importance in my world --
when I run an RPG program that accesses Java methods, I can't locate any
system generated multi-threaded (BCI) job that does the Java work.  I
end up with only a single BCH (single threaded) job that seems to be
running both the RPG and Java code. 
 
So my questions are as follows:

1.      Where is the BCI job that executes RPG initiated Java code?  If
the answer is that there is no BCI job, how can the JVM function in a
non multi-threaded job?  
2.      Can Java code (inside or outside of RPG) be made to run in a
multi-threaded job without the need for the system to generate a
separate job to do the work (as the above documentation snipit seems to
suggest)?  If so, would it help to speed things up?

Thanks,
Larry
 
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