The Source tab provides a text editor to access the contents of the bar-descriptor.xml file for advanced editing purposes. You can copy and paste options from external sources, and access elements that aren't displayed on the General, Application, Assets, and Localization tabs (such as comments).
This tab offers syntax highlighting, content assist (based on the XML schema), validation, and problem markers and annotations. Changes made on the Source tab are automatically updated in the contents of the other tabs. In addition, changes made on the General, Application, and Asset tabs are also immediately reflected on the Source tab.
For more details, see The application descriptor file DTD.