About Forms Service of the Oracle 9i DS

I am a new user of Oracle 9i DS Forms.
I found that every time I open a browser and run a applet form, there is a new process named "ifweb90.exe" created and a new port on my forms service server opened for it.
I am wondering why not use native thread, native process is just too heavy, for example every "ifweb90.exe" process cost me about 11Mb memory. What's more, the more clients, the more server ports will be opened, that is just terrible.
Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks Frank!
I got it. But I am still confused on the server port opened by the Forms process.
I think the client side Applets communicate with listener servlet through port 8888. why do we need that port?
Will the applet talk to that port directly after the listener servlet initialize the form process? because I monitor that port and I found that there is something talk to it with HTTP Post method.

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