PL/SQL Developer
PL/SQL Wrapper Plug-In User's Guide
Allround Automations
This document describes the PL/SQL Developer integration Plug-In for Oracle's PL/SQL Wrapper. The PL/SQL Wrapper is a standard command-line utility to encrypt the source code of your PL/SQL program units. The encrypted source files are unreadable, but can still be compiled into a database. This is useful when you want to distribute a client/server application but need to protect the intellectual property of your server software.
This Plug-In makes it easy to wrap your program units from within PL/SQL Developer. Just select the program unit in the Object Browser and select 'Wrap program unit' from the Tools menu.
To install the PL/SQL Wrapper Plug-In, simply run the supplied setup.exe. This will copy the Plug-In DLL (wrap.dll) into PL/SQL Developer's Plugins directory. Make sure that you have write access to this directory when you run the setup program.
After installing the Plug-In, you have a new item in the Tools menu: Wrap program unit. You can additionally assign a hotkey in the Key configuration page of the Preferences to this menu item if you want.
This Plug-In makes use of Oracle's wrap command-line utility, which should be located in the bin subdirectory of the oracle home directory (something like c:\oracle\bin). The name of the wrap executable is something like wrap23.exe, wrap80.exe, or just wrap.exe. If more than one version of the PL/SQL Wrapper is installed, the most recent version will be used.
You can only wrap program units that are stored in the database. Just select the program unit in the Object Browser, and select Tools - Wrap program unit. You can alternatively press the hotkey if you assigned one.
A standard file save dialog appears, where you can select a destination directory and filename. The default filename is the name of the program unit with extension .plb.
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