setTargetEndpointAddress slow?

[Michael Ploed]

I have a problem with this piece of code using axis as a client for
webservices:
URL url = new URL("some url");
Service service = new Service();
Call call = (Call)service.createCall();
call.setTargetEndpointAddress(url);

The function setTargetEndpointAddress (last line) is very slow... it took
approx 23 seconds to completet on a high end pentium 4 system. does anybody
have a solution for speeding up this process?

thanks in forward,
michael