title: Java EE specification and multi threading
body: <p>I am writing a Java EE application using Struts and Spring.  In one of the operations there is heavy database processing, and hence performance issues.  What I want to know is can I use multithreading here?  I think the Java EE specification does not allow custom threads to be created apart from those created by Server (I use Weblogic). Please guide me through this.</p>