> i am a fresh Delphi programmer. i was asked to use IBO. But i am all
> against data bound controls, as i don't have control over the
> transactions.But i am bound to use IBO.

Others have provided the full answer.

The short answer is Jason wrote IBO BECAUSE the other
options simply did not work, and the result is a package
that works extreamly well.

Some of the others have caught up, but IBO was at one time
the only package that handled transactions properly :)

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