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I have just installed the above on Mac OSX and I ran in to a few problems. The first of these was that when configuring my target JDK to the one in /usr/bin none of the relevant libraries were included in the classpath, as such IntelliJ would complain that it could not find stuff in the standard Java API.
I was told that you could resolve this by adding manually all of the JARs in the /Library/Java/Home/lib directory, however I have found a better way.
On closer inspection the java* commands in /usr/bin are all symbolic links

[DirtyMac:/usr/bin] sam_dalton% ls -l java*
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     57 May  8 11:12 java -> 
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Commands/java
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     65 May  8 11:12 java-rmi.cgi -> 
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Commands/java-rmi.cgi
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     58 May  8 11:12 javac -> 
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Commands/javac
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  19336 Apr 14 09:09 javaconfig
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     60 May  8 11:12 javadoc -> 
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Commands/javadoc
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     58 May  8 11:12 javah -> 
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Commands/javah
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     58 May  8 11:12 javap -> 
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Commands/javap