Firewall builder consists of an object-oriented gui and a set of policy compilers for various firewall platforms. in firewall builder, firewall policy is a set of rules, each rule consists of abstract objects which represent real network objects and services (hosts, routers, firewalls, networks, protocols). firewall builder helps the user maintain a database of objects and allows policy editing using simple drag-and-drop operations.

this is the arch independent common parts of fwbuilder