http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/windows-service-howto.html says: Note: PR_DEPENDSON, PR_ENVIRONMENT, PR_JVMOPTIONS, PR_JVMMS, PR_JVMMX, PR_JVMSS, PR_STARTPARAMS, PR_STOPPARAMS and PR_STOPTIMEOUT will not work until this bug is fixed: DAEMON-49 According to https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310468&version=12314763, this issue has already been fixed since version 1.0.2 (the version used in Tomcat 7 is 1.0.10)
Docs were already fixed on May 2nd in r1333161 (trunk), r1333164 (tc7) and r1333168 (tc6). The online docs are normally updated with the next release, so the change isn't yet visible. Regards, Rainer
I wasn't aware of that. Thanks!