... 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)