First connection to Xindice takes too much time in servlets?

[Devrim Ergel]

Hi,   I'm using Xindice in Tomcat Servlet environement. I logged elapsed time for connection with XML:DB API. The result is ~750ms for first connection. But next connections takes between 20-40ms.I do not use any connection pooling mechanism so every request to servlet try to reconnect to Xindice.   I wonder why next connections are so quick, is there an internal mechanism to speed up next connections? (so we don't need DB pooling with these performance values)   Devrim Ergel