What does mean java source/binary format?

Question

What does mean source/binary format in java? what is it?

This property appears in netbeans project's properties/source category.

Answer 1

Means if you're working with a project that must be compatible with JDK 7, 6, 5 ... so that the IDE can recognize unsupported features in your code.

The IDE would compile with the appropiate -source and -target options.