Starting many instances of a sub workflow

Hi,
I'm trying to create a scenario using WLPI studio wherein from a parent workflow
task I want to start a number of instances of a sub workflow. I want that completion
of all the sub workflow instances should lead to completion of the parent workflow
task. How do I do this in WLPI? One way is completion of each of the sub-workflow
generates an event which parent workflow is listening and updates some of its
workflow. However, I was expecting that parent and sub workflow works synchronously,
but I don't know how to configure it... Some of the newgroups mails do talk about
this feature but as mentioned in the following reply for one such query, but in
actual it is not behaving like that :
"Harshad The only time workflows will actually run on parallel threads is when
you trigger the workflows via xml events. Calling a workflow will always keep
it on the same thread until a quiescent state is hot in the child workflow. At
that point control is given back to the parent"

Yes, that is possible. Let's say you have a package with AID 1122334455 which contains an applet with AID 112233445500 on your card. Now you can create two instances, for example with instance AID 11223344550001 and 11223344550002:
=> 80 E6 0C 00 1B 05 11 22 33 44 55 06 11 22 33 44    ......."3DU.."3D
    55 00 07 11 22 33 44 55 00 01 01 00 02 C9 00 00    U..."3DU........
    00                                                 .
(30 msec)
<= 00 90 00                                           ...
=> 80 E6 0C 00 1B 05 11 22 33 44 55 06 11 22 33 44    ......."3DU.."3D
    55 00 07 11 22 33 44 55 00 02 01 00 02 C9 00 00    U..."3DU........
    00                                                 .
(10 msec)
<= 00 90 00                                           ...

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