title: Books recommendation to learn about java networking
body: <p>In order to cover for my (glaring) lack of knowledge in the basics of networking, I'm looking for a book which would ideally cover:</p>
  
  <p>-> 1 or 2 chapters on the transport layer: tcp, udp...</p>
  
  <p>-> 1 or 2 chapters on the application layer: http, dns...</p>
  
  <p>-> rest of the book would be devoted to pratical way of sending data across the wire using Java-related technologies. This would involve discussions about existing products (eg. hessian, protobuf, thrift, tibco...) , performances comparisons, case studies...etc..</p>
  
  <p>Does such a book exist ?</p>
  
  <p>Edit: Thanks for all the answers so far... however most of the books listed focus heavily on the lower levels of the networking stack (ie. tcp/ip, network administration...). 
  This is one-half of the answer only. I'm still eager to hear suggestions about the other half: discussions around the "state of the art" options available to the Java developer to ferry data around, what products/frameworks are available and how do they compare.</p>