[news.eclipse.newcomer] Eclipse can't find javac

["Kyle Peter Fritz" <kyle.fritz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

When attempting to compile, I get an error:

Compilation error: Unable to find a javac compiler;
com.sun.tools.javac.Main is not on the classpath.
Perhaps JAVA_HOME does not point to the JDK.
It is currently set to "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_06\jre"

Obviously, this isn't right.  It should be set to "C:\Program 
Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_06".  I don't know why it has that "jre" directory at 
the end.  My environment variable for JAVA_HOME is set to "C:\Program 
Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_06".  The location of the installed JRE in 
Preferences>Java>Installed JREs is "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_06". 
Even Ant seems configured correctly with 
Preferences>Ant>Runtime>Classpath>Global Entries listing "C:\Program 
Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_06\lib\tools.jar".

I can't figure out why Eclipse is looking for javac in the jre subdirectory, 
and I am scratching my head trying to figure out where this setting was 
made.  Does anybody have any idea why this is happening?

-KPF