SOAP service can't get started ....

... when there is no configuration home and it's the first time you're laucnhing teh application to setup. Here is the exception logged on server:

[STARTUP] Glue Standard 5.0 Beta2 (c) 2001-2003 webMethods, Inc.
[ERROR] webapp: could not start service confluenceservice-v1
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Spring Application context has not been set
at com.atlassian.confluence.setup.container.SpringContainerContext.getComponent(SpringContainerContext.java:47)
at com.atlassian.confluence.rpc.soap.SoapServiceFactory.getService(SoapServiceFactory.java:15)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at electric.util.reflect.Reflect.invoke(Reflect.java:123)
at electric.util.constructor.Factory.newInstance(Factory.java:73)
at electric.service.descriptor.initializer.Constructor.create(Constructor.java:26)
at electric.service.descriptor.ServiceDescriptor.setClassLoader(ServiceDescriptor.java:267)
at electric.application.web.services.ManagedService.begin(ManagedService.java:55)
at electric.application.web.managed.ManagedObject.start(ManagedObject.java:125)
at electric.application.web.managed.ObjectManager.add(ObjectManager.java:87)
at electric.application.web.services.ServiceManager.publishServiceEntries(ServiceManager.java:109)
at electric.application.web.services.ServiceManager.loadServicesFromDescriptors(ServiceManager.java:96)
at electric.application.web.services.ServiceManager.start(ServiceManager.java:64)
at electric.application.web.WebApplication.startManagers(WebApplication.java:382)
at electric.application.web.WebApplication.start(WebApplication.java:286)
at electric.server.http.ServletServer.init(ServletServer.java:299)
at com.caucho.server.http.Application.createServlet(Application.java:3111)
at com.caucho.server.http.Application.loadServlet(Application.java:3062)
at com.caucho.server.http.Application.initServlets(Application.java:1923)
at com.caucho.server.http.Application.init(Application.java:1849)
at com.caucho.server.http.VirtualHost.init(VirtualHost.java:728)
at com.caucho.server.http.ServletServer.initHosts(ServletServer.java:885)
at com.caucho.server.http.ServletServer.initInternal(ServletServer.java:727)
at com.caucho.server.http.ServletServer.init(ServletServer.java:538)
at com.caucho.server.http.ResinServer.init(ResinServer.java:406)
at com.caucho.server.http.ResinServer.main(ResinServer.java:1167)
at com.caucho.server.http.HttpServer.main(HttpServer.java:103)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(Unknown Source)