Tomcat 9.0.30 on Windows Server 2012 / Java 1.8

I've noticed on a freshly installed version of tomcat 9, upon startup there
are several connections to and from localhost on different ports

For example on my tomcat server there are 4 connections to and from
localhost (output from netstat)

 TCP    0.0.0.0:8080           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING       3972
 TCP    127.0.0.1:55618        127.0.0.1:55619        ESTABLISHED     3972
 TCP    127.0.0.1:55619        127.0.0.1:55618        ESTABLISHED     3972
 TCP    127.0.0.1:55620        127.0.0.1:55621        ESTABLISHED     3972
 TCP    127.0.0.1:55621        127.0.0.1:55620        ESTABLISHED     3972
 TCP    [::]:8080              [::]:0                 LISTENING       3972

These can grow to a large number (several thousand) on a busy system. What
are these connections used for? What caused them? What thread are they
attributed to?

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