He is coauthor of Java Web Services Architecture (Morgan Kaufmann, 2003), A Practical Guide to Enterprise Architecture (Prentice Hall, 2003), and J2EE Bible (Wiley, 2003). McGovern is a member of the Java Community Process, and is currently working on Performance Metric Instrumentation (JSR 138) specification. He is also a member of the Worldwide Institute of Software Architects, and holds industry certifications from Microsoft, Cisco, and Sun.