tomcat 6 as a windows service fails to start with -server option

[olivier giorgi <olivier_giorgi@xxxxxxxx>]

Hello to all,

 

struggling to enable UTF-8 encoding  on apache tomcat 6 Windows service.

The option we used to activate (within startup.bat) was

          -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -server

Looks like tomcat is able to start when launched from startup.bat, but, if we intend to configure tomcat as a service, the -server flag causes the process to abort

[395 javajni.c] [error] CreateJavaVM Failed

[1000 prunsrv.c] [error] Failed initializing java ...\intel_a\code\tomcat\current\bin\bootstrap.jar

[1269 prunsrv.c] [error] ServiceStart returned 2

[info] Run service finished.

[info] Procrun finished.

 

Despite several threads around this Procrun/prunsrv.c story, it's hard to figure out what are the limitations/fixes to these kind of pbs.

Any gourou who would have a clue? Thxs in advance.