title: No compiler is provided in this environment. Perhaps you are running on a JRE rather than a JDK?
body: <p>I'm compiling a project in Eclipse using m2eclipse. I set the JDK path in Eclipse like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Windows--&gt;preferences--&gt;installed jres--&gt; jdk1.7.xx  path
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But this is showing an error</p>
  
  <pre><code>[ERROR] COMPILATION ERROR :
  [INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
  [ERROR] No compiler is provided in this environment. Perhaps you are running on a JRE    rather than a JDK?
  [INFO] 1 error
  [INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] BUILD FAILURE
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] Total time: 1.424s
  [INFO] Finished at: Tue Oct 29 15:21:01 IST 2013
  [INFO] Final Memory: 5M/15M
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-   plugin:3.1:compile (default-compile) on project TEST-WEB: Compilation failure
  [ERROR] No compiler is provided in this environment. Perhaps you are running on a JRE rather than a JDK?
  </code></pre>