the documentation for JNI_CreateJavaVM:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/guide/jni/spec/invocation.doc.html#16334

states:

"JDK 1.1.2 does not support creating more than one VM in a single process"

customers can take this to imply that this feature is available
post 1.1.2. the version number should be removed so that this can be
seen to apply to all jdk versions.