Asynchronous WRITES

Java profiling with freeware tools can be a somewhat tricky thing, but my app appears to be spending quite a lot of time in java.net.socketWrite, or in other words, executing various INSERT statements.

If the DB is on another machine from the Java client, would I be able to get a speedup by INSERTing asynchronously? I don't care about the return value; if things get messed up the application will find out soon enough.

What would be the best way to do this in Java? I assume I have to create another Thread object to poll for DB INSERT statements, but if someone has already done this, I'd like to know what to look out for.