TY - JOUR PB - ACM Press SP - 27 AV - public Y1 - 2010/// JF - SIGAPP Applied Computing Review EP - 40 UR - http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1564/ VL - 11 N2 - WS-BPEL is imposing itself as a standard for orchestration of web services. However, there are still some well-known difficulties that make programming in WS-BPEL a tricky task. In this paper, we present BliteC, a software tool we have developed for supporting a rapid and easy development of WS-BPEL applications. BliteC translates service orches- trations written in Blite, a formal language inspired to but simpler than WS-BPEL, into readily executable WS-BPEL programs. We illustrate our approach by means of a few practical programming examples. A1 - Cesari, Luca A1 - Pugliese, Rosario A1 - Tiezzi, Francesco IS - 1 KW - Service-Oriented Computing KW - Web services KW - Compilers TI - A tool for rapid development of WS-BPEL applications ID - eprints1564 ER -