%D 2010 %I ACM Press %X 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. %A Luca Cesari %A Rosario Pugliese %A Francesco Tiezzi %L eprints1564 %N 1 %V 11 %J SIGAPP Applied Computing Review %P 27-40 %R 10.1145/1869687.1869690 %K Service-Oriented Computing, Web services, Compilers %T A tool for rapid development of WS-BPEL applications